US07780508B2
A register includes an operation knob which is slidably assembled to a selected one of front horizontal blades and which is connected to a selected one of rear vertical blades via a connection mechanism. The connection mechanism includes a connection pillar portion formed integrally with an intermediate portion of the selected vertical blade, the connection pillar portion having a generally circular cross section and being located at a position deviating from a rotation axis of the selected rear vertical blade, and a pair of connection arm portions extending rearward from the rear end of the operation knob with a predetermined space formed therebetween. The operation knob is connected to the selected vertical blade in a state where the connection pillar portion is rotatably inserted into an engagement groove between the connection arm portions.
US07780504B2
A method for manufacturing a magnetic recording medium disk substrate is provided for achieving a magnetic disk having a suitable surface roughness, a high in-plane magnetic anisotropy and a high S/N. The manufacturing method has a texturing process wherein the magnetic recording medium disk substrate is rotated in the circumferential direction while a polishing tape is pressed against the rotating substrate. The polishing tape includes polyester fiber having a fiber diameter of 400 nm to 950 nm, on the surface coming into contact with the substrate. All the while, slurry including abrasive grains including a cluster diamond is supplied to the surfaces of the substrate. The present invention relates to a magnetic recording medium disk substrate produced by the manufacturing method; and a magnetic recording medium at least comprising a magnetic layer on the magnetic recording medium disk substrate and manufacturing method of the magnetic recording medium.
US07780485B2
An electrical connector includes a terminal and a connector body. The terminal has one or more tabs. The connector body has a cavity that is constructed and sized to receive the terminal. The connector body has one or more rails, and has one or more knobs. When the terminal is received in the cavity, the tab bears against the rail and bears against the knob.
US07780479B2
A housing for a coaxial jack including an opening for receiving the jack, the opening including a guide for preventing rotation of the jack within the opening. The housing also includes a stop to limit sliding of the jack within the opening and a flange extending from an outer surface. An outer face opposite the flange includes a ridge and a groove. A housing for coaxial jacks includes a pair of openings for receiving jacks. Each opening includes a guide to prevent rotation and a stop to limit sliding of the jack within the opening.
US07780473B2
A plug connector comprises a terminal electrically terminated to a cable. An inner molding is circumferentially formed on a connection between the terminal and the cable. A first outer molding is circumferentially formed on an external peripheral surface of the inner molding and a portion of the cable, the first outer molding is defined by a front section and a rear section with an outer diameter being larger than that of the front section. A second outer molding is circumferentially formed on an external peripheral surface of the front section of the first outer molding and interfered with the terminal.
US07780471B2
A connector apparatus includes a main body. The main body includes a first module, and a second module. The first and second modules are detachably assembled together. At least one connector is fixed in each of the first and second modules.
US07780470B2
The present invention is directed to an electrical wiring system for use in an AC electrical power distribution circuit including at least one first AC power conductor disposed between an upstream AC power element and a device box and at least one second AC power conductor disposed between the device box and a downstream AC power element. The at least one first AC power conductor and the at least one second AC power conductor are routed into an interior portion of the device box and accessible via a front open face of the device box. The system includes a connector device including a connector housing having a plurality of connector contacts disposed therein.The plurality of connector contacts are coupled to termination structures configured to couple the at least one first AC power conductor and the at least one second AC power conductor to corresponding contacts of the plurality of connector contacts. An electrical wiring device includes a device housing having a front portion and a rear portion. The front portion includes at least one user-accessible control element disposed thereon. The at least one user-accessible control element is coupled to an electrical switch mechanism disposed in the device housing and coupled to a plurality of device contacts. The plurality of device contacts are accessible by way of a device connection arrangement formed in the rear portion of the device housing. The plurality of device contacts are configured to mate with the plurality of connector contacts when the connector device is coupled to the device connection arrangement.
US07780468B1
An electrical connector for connecting wires to components includes an insulative body member having a longitudinally extending leg defined between opposite longitudinal ends. A plurality of spaced apart side walls define adjacently disposed connector positions along the leg. A wire insertion opening is defined in a front wall of the body member at each of the connector positions. A connector element is disposed transverse to the leg at each of the connector positions. The connector element includes a first resilient contact arm extending above the side walls for pressing mating contact with a conductive pad of a separate respective component. The connector element includes a second resilient contact arm in biased engagement against a shoulder of the body member. Upon insertion of an exposed conductive wire core through the wire insertion opening, the wire core causes the second resilient contact arm to flex towards and remain in biased electrical contact engagement against the wire core.
US07780467B2
A connector having a housing and a contact are described. The connector includes an electrically conductive contact and a housing. The housing has a cavity to receive and secure the contact, a first alignment feature for receiving a first conductive cable into the contact and a second alignment feature for receiving a second conductive cable into the contact. The housing also includes at least one attachment point protruding from the housing to attach and secure the connector to a surface and at least one flexible flange to substantially prevent movement of the connector on a surface. The contact receives and secures the first conductive cable and the second conductive cable to provide an electrical connection between the first conductive cable and the second conductive cable. The attachment point attaches and secures the connector to a surface.
US07780461B1
A ground fitting allows simplified electrical connection between a ground wire carried in a metal sheathing, and a ground point such as a water pipe or ground rod. The metal sheathing is cut and separated and a short length of ground wire is exposed. The ground wire is inserted laterally into a wire clamp portion of the ground fitting, and opposing ends of the metal sheathing carrying the ground wire are inserted longitudinally under clamping plates on opposite sides of the ground fitting. A ground screw is tightened against the ground wire to hold the ground wire in the ground fitting and plate screws securing the clamping plates are tightened to secure the sheathing between the clamping plates and clamp seats. Ridges may be provided on one or both of the clamping plates and the clamp seat to engage a spiral exterior surface of the metal sheathing.
US07780449B2
A root canal is filled and/or sealed using a hydrophilic sealing composition, optionally in combination with other filling materials. The sealing composition may include one or more resins that promote adhesion to hydrophilic dental tissues. The composition may be introduced into the root canal using a narrow cannula coupled to a high pressure hydraulic delivery device. In the case where a chemical cure composition is used to seal the root canal, a chemical initiator can be used to cause the mixed composition to harden over time. Hardening of at least a portion of the composition can be accelerated by including a photoinitiator and irratiating the mixed composition with radiant energy (e.g., from a dental curing lamp).
US07780433B2
In a thermally gated hot runner nozzle or hot runner system, a thermal insert is in contact with and separable from a nozzle tip and is in contact with and separable from a nozzle body. The thermal insert is made of a material having a thermal conductivity different from thermal conductivity of the material of the nozzle tip.
US07780421B2
A refrigerant compressor has a hermetically tight compressor housing inside of which a piston-cylinder unit operates. A suction muffler through which refrigerant flows to the intake valve of the piston-cylinder unit is provided on the cylinder head. The inlet of the suction muffler has a cross section via which refrigerant flows into the suction muffler. A compensating volume is provided inside of which refrigerant oscillates and which is connected to the suction muffler and the interior of the compressor housing. The cross section of the inlet also acts as the connecting port between the compensating volume and the filling volume. The compensating volume is formed by an outer tube directed into the compressor housing, which tightly surrounds the intake port of the inlet while surrounding the section of the refrigerant suction pipe that is connected to the evaporator of the compressor and extends into the interior of the compressor housing.
US07780406B2
An injection molded commercial pool pump is provided having a motor, an adapter plate connected to the motor, a housing connected to the adapter plate further comprising a channel, a sealing plate positioned between the adapter plate and housing, an impeller connected to the motor shaft, an o-ring positioned between the sealing plate and housing to prevent leaking of internal fluids and a diffuser positioned over the impeller and connected to the sealing plate where the diffuser and impeller are inserted into the channel.
US07780400B2
An arrangement is provided for detecting a shaft break on a rotor of a first turbine, especially a medium pressure turbine, of a gas turbine machine, especially an aircraft engine. A second turbine (11), especially a low pressure turbine, is positioned downstream from the first turbine. An actuating element (18) is positioned lying radially inwardly relative to a flow channel, between the rotor of the first turbine and a stator of the second turbine. A transmission element (22) is guided in the stator of the second turbine (11), in order to transmit a shaft break detected by the radially inwardly positioned actuating element (18) to a switching element (23) positioned radially outwardly relative to the flow channel on a housing (14) of the gas turbine.
US07780398B2
A bladed stator sector for a turbo-engine reduces the occurrence of thermally-induced stress cracks in stator blades by increasing the flexibility of the sectors by using one or more cutouts. The stator sector includes at least one stator blade between inner and outer platforms and at least one flange on one or more of the platforms. Each flange has a first end portion fixed to one of the platforms and a second end portion that is not fixed to either of the platforms. The one or more cutouts may be located on the flange and may be non-opening.
US07780385B2
Disclosed herein is a unique system providing for the quick and efficient movement of cargo such as pallets, containerized loads, and the like while providing enhanced safety measures to reduce or eliminate some of the injuries that are typically associated with cargo transport. By deploying a cargo transport system constructed from a fiberglass cargo loading grid with one or more cargo restraining latches, the movement of cargo within the trailer or bed of the truck can be more efficiently restrained, thereby minimizing inadvertent exposure of personnel to accidents associated with the movement of the cargo and damage to the cargo during transport. The cargo restraining latch is a spring-loaded, multi-fingered mechanism that is selectively and removably inserted into a portion of the cargo transport system, thereby restraining any undesired movement of the cargo. Additionally, certain embodiments of the cargo transport system comprise a plurality of hinged folding panels with handles, providing an apparatus that is portable and reconfigurable, allowing for maximum flexibility.
US07780382B2
A tool unclamping device according to the present invention comprises a motor, a rotary shaft connected to the motor, a cam provided on the rotary shaft, a power transmission member, pressed by the cam to be axially movable, having a recess at the center in the radial direction thereof, a frame so provided as to enclose the power transmission mechanism, a support member inserted into the power transmission mechanism in the radial direction thereof and fixed to the frame, an elastic member set in the recess located between the power transmission member and the support member for urging the power transmission member toward the motor and an output shaft driven by power from the power transmission mechanism for unclamping a tool.
US07780379B2
A surfacing and contouring cutter for high-speed machining of parts made of composite material, the cutter having a cut end portion with teeth (20) that are regularly spaced apart around the axis (14) of the cutter and that are separated from one another by swarf grooves, the main cutting edge of each tooth being connected to the secondary cutting edge (S2) of the tooth via a corner (24) of convex rounded shape with a radius of curvature greater than about 1.5 mm, and the secondary cutting angle lying in the range about 5° to 15°.
US07780370B2
A calendar binder having a rigid bar with a front surface and a rear surface, a recess centrally positioned on the rear surface of the rigid bar, a tab having a top end and a bottom end, and an adhesive layer on the rear surface of the rigid bar is adapted to secure the rigid bar to a calendar where at least a portion of the tab is positioned in the recess of the rigid bar. The respective materials for the rigid bar, the tab and the adhesive are suitable biodegradable materials.
US07780367B2
A cover operation member (41) is movably attached to the base frame to selectively latch and unlatch a platen (21) attached on the cover frame. The cover operation member (41) is in contact with the head bracket (32) so that the thermal head (31) is separated from the platen (21).
US07780351B2
The invention relates to a method for determining gray-scale values for volume elements of bodies to be mapped using an x-ray image recording system. When a body to be mapped is not mapped in full on a single projection image for a rotational position, a second projection image must be made and a virtual projection image derived from the two projection images, this being back-projected onto the volume elements. For calibration the present invention proposes making the same two projection images in each case at a calibration phantom and additionally a further projection image, corresponding to the position and orientation of the virtual projection image. As a result the mathematical relationships between the projection images and the virtual projection image and for the back-projection can be derived.
US07780340B2
A cheese process vat is disclosed. The cheese process vat includes an enclosure and a shaft assembly, preferably a shaft assembly having a shaft and a plurality of agitator panels arranged on the shaft. The cheese process vat preferably further includes a shaft seal assembly having a fluid accessible clean-in-place chamber. Methods of using the respective cheese process vats are also disclosed.
US07780335B2
An embodiment for a water control apparatus is disclosed that may be used with a concrete mixing assembly. The apparatus may include flowmeter unit and a normally closed valve unit. The normally closed valve unit may be in fluid communication with, and removably connected to, the flowmeter unit. A control unit may be provide that may monitor the flowmeter unit and electronically control the opening of the normally closed valve unit. A switch may be also provided for that may electrically communicate with the control unit to. The activation of the switch being operable to cause the normally closed valve to open and result in the flow of water into a concrete mixing drum that is in fluid communication with the normally closed valve.
US07780321B1
A light assembly includes an attaching member having a chamber for attaching onto an object and having two couplers, two electric cables engaged in the attaching member and each having two end terminals disposed in the couplers, a light device and a power supply device each include a latch device for engaging with the couplers and for attaching to the couplers of the attaching member, and each having two connectors for electrically connecting to the terminals of the electric cables and for electrically connecting the light device to the power supply device, and for allowing the light device and the power supply device to be easily and quickly attach to and disengaged from the attaching member without external wires.
US07780317B2
An LED illumination system comprising an LED light source (3) which emits light (8) in a main direction (9) and a first optical element (1), a second optical element (2) is arranged downstream of the first optical element (1) in the main direction (9), and the second optical element (2) has on a light entrance surface (6) which faces the LED light source (3) a surface structure (4) that comprises a plurality of pillow-shaped prominences (5).
US07780297B2
A screen that receives projected light beams to display an image includes: a plurality of light-transmissive plates having optical transparency; a fluid that is disposed within a light scattering space formed between the light-transmissive plates and contains at least one of gas and liquid; and scattering components that are disposed within the light scattering space and are deformable according to an atmosphere change of the fluid.
US07780296B2
A projection optical unit for obliquely projecting an image displayed on an image display element upon a projection surface, enlargedly, comprises: a lens group, being disposed neighboring to the image display element, and including a plural number of projection lenses therein; and a reflection mirror for reflecting lights emitting from the lens group, to be projected onto the projection surface, obliquely, wherein assuming that a light beam, emitting from a center of the display screen of the image display element, passing through a center of an entrance pupil of the lens group, and entering into a screen center on the projection surface, is a screen center light beam, then the screen center light beam is incident upon the projection surface, obliquely, with respect to a normal line thereon, the lens group comprises a front lens group including a plural number of refraction lenses, being disposed thereafter directing from the image display element to the projection surface and having rotationally symmetric surface configurations, and a rear lens group including a refraction lens having a negative power and having a rotationally symmetric surface configuration and a plural number of lenses having rotationally asymmetric free curved surface configurations, and within the rear lens group, the lens having the negative power is movable in an optical axis direction, and at least one pieces among the lenses having the free curved surface configurations is movable into directions, including the optical axis and direction perpendicular thereto, within a surface including the optical axis and the normal line on the screen.
US07780295B2
An air guiding structure is applied in a projecting device. The projecting device at least includes an optical element. The air guiding structure includes a first side wall and a second side wall. The first side wall having a first opening is disposed near a side of the optical element. The second side wall having a second opening is disposed near the other side of the optical element. Furthermore, the first side wall and the second side wall are connected to each other. The air is guided into the first opening, circulated through the optical element and is vented out via the second opening.
US07780293B2
The present invention provides a method for designing and making a customized ophthalmic lens, such as a contact lens or an intraocular lens, capable of correcting high-order aberrations of an eye. The posterior surface of the customized contact lens is designed to accommodate the corneal topography of an eye. The design of the customized ophthalmic lens is evaluated and optimized in an optimizing routine using a computational model eye that reproduces the aberrations and corneal topography of an eye. The present invention also provides a system and method for characterizing the optical metrology of a customized ophthalmic lens that is designed to correct aberrations of an eye. Furthermore, the present invention provides a business model and method for placing an order for a pair of customized ophthalmic lenses.
US07780275B2
In an image forming apparatus, a liquid ejection head has at least one ejection hole, and a conveyor moves a recording medium relative to the ejection head. A deflector deflects liquid droplets ejected from the ejection hole in a direction including at least a component of a direction substantially parallel to relative conveyance direction of the recording medium. A deflection angle setter sets two or more deflection angles such that when dots mutually adjacent in the direction substantially parallel to the relative conveyance direction of the medium are formed in an overlapping fashion, directions of flight of droplets ejected consecutively are deflected such that their directions of flight become different from each other. Droplet landing time differential between the first droplet and the second droplet becomes equal to or greater than quasi-fixing time period from a landing time of the first liquid droplet until the first liquid droplet becomes quasi-fixed.
US07780270B2
A heating structure of an inkjet printhead and an inkjet printhead including the heating structure. The heating structure includes a substrate, a heater formed on the substrate, an electrode formed on the heater, a passivation layer formed to cover the heaters and the electrodes, and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) formed in the passivation layer.
US07780264B2
A nozzle assembly for an inkjet printhead is disclosed. The nozzle assembly includes an inkjet nozzle having an actuator for ejecting an ink droplet from the inkjet nozzle when a resistive element of the actuator is heated by an electrical current. A drive transistor provides an energy pulse to the resistive element of the actuator, and control logic controls the drive transistor. The drive transistor and control logic are formed on a silicon substrate, and the inkjet nozzle is formed over the drive transistor and control logic.
US07780255B2
An inkjet recording apparatus having a recording head unit having nozzle lines driven with multi-phase drive, a moving unit to move the recording head unit in a scanning direction crossing the nozzle lines, a clock generating unit, and a recording head control section. The recording head control section includes a phase control section to control each drive phase of the nozzle lines on the basis of the clock signals, and controls the recording head unit such that, by driving the nozzle lines with the drive phases controlled by the phase control section during movement of the recording head unit by the moving unit, an image is recorded with a plurality of pixels reduced by a predetermined reduced pattern, and with predetermined times of repetition of this recording, an image recording in the recording area is completed.
US07780252B2
A staging lock (22) is movably mounted to an intermediate member (16), and has a follower tab (58) and a lock tab (66). When the intermediate member (16) is fully extended from within the cabinet member (14), the follower tab (58) engages a cam form (106) on the cabinet member (14) and moves the staging lock (22) from a closed position to an open position. When the staging lock (22) is disposed in the closed position, the lock tab (66) engages a staging lock catch (114) on the chassis member (18) to secure the chassis member (18) in a fully retracted position within the intermediate member (16). When the staging lock (22) is moved to the open position, the chassis member (18) may extend from within the intermediate member (16). A rear lock (24) retains the intermediate member (16) in a fully extended position until the chassis member (18) is fully retracted within the intermediate member (16).
US07780249B2
The system foresees for each plate (1) an autonomous mechanical structure composed of one section bar (3) connected to a gripper that holds a plate (1) as well as of another section bar (10) and at least two support arms (5, 5′, 6, 6′) hinged upon said section bars (3, 10); the structure is fixed to a section bar (9) that is in turn fixed to the display counter or window near the base of the tank; the support arms (5, 5′, 6, 6′) differ in length; two supports (4, 4′, 11, 11′) are fixed to each section bar (3, 10); said supports constitute the hinge members upon which the ends of the support arms (5, 5′, 6, 6′) fit; each plate (1) can both move in a parallelogram motion with translation parallel to the display counter or window, and open like a casement window using the pin (7) of the shorter support arm (5, 5′) as a pivot; the system also contains a spring closing mechanism and a lock (18).
US07780247B2
An endless belt body for a track assembly, comprising through holes, between traction lugs of the ground-engaging surface thereof, along a length thereof, located in at least one of: i) the central region of a width of the endless belt body, and ii) on the lateral parts of the width of the endless belt body.
US07780246B2
In a BBW type brake system, first ports of fluid pressure generators are closed to generate brake fluid pressure in respective wheel cylinders before a master cylinder generates brake fluid pressure, by initiating the operation of the fluid pressure generators based on the output of a pedal stroke sensor. Therefore, the brake fluid pressure generated by the master cylinder is prevented from being transmitted to wheel cylinders, even when a shutoff valve, which closes during normal operation of a conventional BBW type brake system, is not provided, thereby providing reliable operation of the BBW type brake system. Thus, since the master cylinder and the fluid pressure generators are kept in communication at a non-braking time, a reservoir of the master cylinder can be also used as the reservoir of the fluid pressure generators without providing the system with an atmosphere valve, which is conventionally required.
US07780243B2
The invention is directed to outside diameter piloting apparatus and method for concentrically aligning a disc rotor to a wheel hub. The pitch circle diameter of the annular piloting features is greater than the pitch circle diameter of the rotor mounting fasteners and the wheel studs of the hub. The outside diameter piloting feature allows a hub section profile which is smooth and continuous between the inboard side of the wheel hub up to the mounting fastener apertures. This smooth and continuous profile reduces stresses and increases the fatigue life of the wheel hub.
US07780241B2
A machine includes a clevis joint connecting a first frame structure to a second frame structure. The clevis joint includes two plates configured to receive a rotatable element of the first frame structure. An expandable thrust washer is positioned on at least one side of the rotatable element. A pin extends through the two plates, the rotatable element, and the expandable thrust washer. The expandable thrust washer has a variably selected length and includes an outer ring configured to receive at least a portion of an inner ring. Expanding the expandable thrust washer to an expanded length reduces clearance along an axis of the clevis joint.
US07780238B2
A headrest assembly for a seat having a seat back and a seat bottom is provided that includes a headrest having first and second divided headrest portions. First and second articulated arms are pivotably mounted with respect to the seat back in a scissor arrangement and supporting the first and second headrest portions, respectively. Each of the articulated arms has a respective distal portion operatively connected to the seat bottom, preferably with flexible cables and a forked element. The headrest assembly is configured so that the headrest portions pivot to adjacent, use positions when the seat bottom is subjected to at least a predetermined load and to pivot back to separated, non-use positions when the seat bottom is not subject to at least the predetermined load.
US07780237B2
A headrest assembly is adapted to be disposed on a child seat. The child seat includes a seat frame. The headrest assembly includes a mounting member connected to the seat frame, and a headrest plate including a mounting seat attached to the mounting member and including a pair of resilient retainers connected respectively to two opposite sides of the mounting member. Each of the retainers has a plurality of positioning portions disposed respectively at different height positions. Each of the sides of the mounting member engages a selected one of the positioning portions of a corresponding one of the retainers.
US07780219B2
A vehicle roof assembly includes a roof having rear and front roof elements relative to the direction of forward vehicle travel. The roof elements are movable between closed and opened positions of the roof. The assembly further includes a roof kinematic system having first and second guide rod systems located on opposite sides of the roof for movably connecting the roof to a vehicle body to move the roof between its closed and opened positions. Each guide rod system includes a guide rod. The guide rods are articulately connectable at respective ends to the front roof element and the vehicle body. The two guide rods with their respective pairs of articulated joints form a common four-bar kinematic linkage. Alternatively, the first guide rod system may be a two-bar kinematic linkage and the second guide rod system may be a four-bar kinematic linkage.
US07780215B2
A guide rod system movably connects a trunk lid to a vehicle such that the lid is movable between a base position in which the lid covers a trunk of the vehicle, a luggage storage position in which the rear of the lid is raised relative to the trunk, and a roof transport position in which the front of the lid is raised relative to the trunk. The guide rod system includes first and second guide rods and a coupler. The first guide rod is respectively connected at opposite ends to the front of the lid and the vehicle. The second guide rod is respectively connected at opposite ends to the rear of the lid and the vehicle. The coupler is connected between the guide rods to actuate the guide rods to move the lid between the base, luggage storage, and roof transport positions.
US07780201B2
A connector for connecting a tube within a receptacle. A latching component fits within the receptacle, and receives a plug member to which the tube is connected. One end of receptacle is adapted, for instance, to be attached to a tube on a motor drive unit of a breast pump assembly, or formed integrally therewith. The opposite end of receptacle receives components of the connector therein. The plug member is inserted into the latching component and has means thereon that engage corresponding means on the latching component such that the plug member is releasably secured within the latching component in a rotatable manner.
US07780183B2
An actuating mechanism for a foldable stroller includes a mounting housing disposed on a handle tube of the foldable stroller, and a disk disposed in the mounting housing and connected rotatably to the handle tube. The disk has a notch, and a control lever extending outwardly of the mounting housing. Two cables are fastened to the disk at two diametrically opposed positions, respectively. The control lever is pushable in a lever-driving direction to rotate relative to the mounting housing to thereby move the cables. A safety latch is disposed in the mounting housing, and has an integral engagement member biased to engage the notch in the disk, and an integral pushbutton pushable in a pushbutton-driving direction opposite to the lever-driving direction so as to remove the engagement member from the notch in the disk, thereby allowing for folding of the foldable stroller.
US07780182B2
A boat trailer for towing behind a vehicle having a frame constructed and arranged in a first portion and a second portion that are pinned together to permit one section to move relative to the other section. The second portion is constructed and arranged to accommodate floatation panels. A hitch is constructed and arranged to receive the first portion of the frame. A stabilizing plate is mounted to the hitch and has a spring biased buckle mounted on at least one of its ends. The spring biased buckle has a strap capable of extending from the buckle, and the strap has a hooked portion on its end. In order to hold the strap in place, a strap mounting member is attached to the second portion of the frame, which is constructed and arranged to receive the hooked portion.
US07780181B2
A rear portion structure of a vehicle body for a saddle-type vehicle includes a pair of left and right rear frames provided rearwardly of a main frame section of the vehicle body, and pillion steps attached to the left and right rear frames through respective stays, wherein each of the rear frames includes a stay attaching portion which projects on an inner side of the frame, and to which a corresponding one of said stays is fastened in a direction substantially perpendicular to the vehicle body's leftward and rightward direction. Such rear portion structure suppresses adverse influences on rear frame rigidity and the appearance of the vehicle body when the pillion steps are attached thereto.
US07780170B2
An East-West casino offers two or more gambling games in which at least one game involves a Feng Shui element of chance and the other involves either a game based upon a new Chinese Poker Deck of cards or a video slot machine having a carousel in which two or more wheels rotate in opposite directions and a random event associated with the two or more wheels is used in connection with a payout or bonus round of the video slot machine. The game involving a Feng Shui element of chance can be a Yin-Yang roulette game or a video slot machine or a Feng Shui keno machine while a game based upon the Chinese Poker Deck may be a poker game and the casino itself may be a website. The video slot machine can use a carousel in which two or more wheels rotating in opposite directions.
US07780165B2
The present invention provides a gaming apparatus adapted for substantially continuous play, comprising a first set of elements divisible into two or more distinguishable subsets; a second set of destinations divisible into two or more distinguishable subsets; selection means for selecting at random one element from the first set; association means for associating the randomly selected one element at random with one destination of the second set; and return means for returning the randomly selected one element to the start position.The present invention further provides adapting the above apparatus to an electronic gaming format.
US07780161B2
A method of picking sheet media in a printer is provided. In the method a pick-up roller is caused to contact with sheet media of a supply of sheet media, the pick-up roller is rotatably driven with a motor via a gear assembly so that the pick-up roller picks up the sheet media and delivers the picked sheet media to a sheet media transport mechanism for transporting sheet media past a printhead, and substantially at the point of delivery of a leading edge of the picked sheet media to the sheet media transport mechanism by the pick-up roller, a first gear of the gear assembly is disengaged from a second gear of the gear assembly to cease the driving of the pick-up roller.
US07780156B2
The present invention relates to a method and equipment for the handling of web materials (200), such as essentially continuous webs of plastic films, textiles, non-wovens, or paper, or the like, or of parts or pieces of such webs. In particular execution, it relates to modifying the movement of such web materials (200), so as to allow other process steps to be performed on or with these web materials more easily. Particular aspects relate to the creation of a cross-directional fold in the web material and the combining of web materials (200) with other materials.
US07780154B2
A fluid-filled type engine mount having a pressure receiving chamber and an equilibrium chamber connected together through a first orifice passage, and an intermediate chamber connected to the equilibrium chamber through a second orifice passage. The intermediate chamber is partially defined by a movable film, and the pressure-receiving chamber and the intermediate chamber are situated to either side of the movable film. The movable film is a tabular rubber elastic body, and is imparted with non-linear spring properties in response to elastic deformation in a width direction thereof so that its deformation during input of idling vibration occurs in a low spring properties zone, whereas its deformation during input of vibration of greater amplitude than the idling vibration in a higher frequency range than a resonance frequency of the first orifice passage reaches a high spring properties zone.
US07780152B2
A method and apparatus for generating steam by heating water with a flame is provided. The water is introduced into a vortex sustaining container and flows through the container in a spiraling manner creating a liquid vortex with an open axial core. The flame effects heat transfer and is the product of the ignition of fuel mixed with a tangentially swirling oxygen containing gas.
US07780150B2
A fuel supply device for an engine includes a fuel tank positioned such that, at least when the fuel tank is filled with fuel, a first fuel level in the fuel tank is higher than a minimum required second fuel level in a float chamber. A bypass passage that bypasses a fuel pump is provided, and an on-off valve is disposed in the bypass passage. The fuel supply device is capable of improving a starting characteristic of the engine during an off period of the fuel pump without increasing a head difference between the first and second fuel levels.
US07780140B1
A two-piece plastic equipment pad with a top portion and an identical bottom portion. Each portion has a base with an underlying grid structure comprising cells formed by perpendicular ribs. The top portion and the bottom portion are aligned and connected together by connector strips that slots formed in the perpendicular ribs of the grid structure of the top portion and the bottom portion.
US07780137B2
A device for fastening a rectangular sensor to a support part has a base plate (2) in which a receiving recess (3) is made. Guide walls (6, 7) are integrally formed on mutually opposite edge sides (4, 5) of the receiving recess (3), said guide walls extending between two corner regions (18, 20; 19, 21) of the receiving recess (3), which corner regions end an edge side (4, 5). Furthermore, stop parts (10, 11) which are shorter than the length of the guide walls (6, 7) are integrally formed on the other edge sides (8, 9), in each case in the central region thereof, the stop parts each having at least one stop section (26) oriented at right angles to the base plate (2), wherein the guide sections (22) and the stop sections (26) bear against a wall of the sensor when the sensor is fitted. As a result, even sensors of relatively large dimensions can be fastened to the support part in a stable and accurately fitting manner with relatively little expenditure on material.
US07780135B2
A system for mounting a component in an aperture of a supporting surface has a mounting flange surrounding the component to be mounted, and at least two clamp dogs attached to the mounting flange and located adjacent a rear surface of the mounting flange. The component is inserted into a mounting hole cut in a sheet rock surface or ceiling tile, so that the flange abuts the front face of the surface. The clamping assemblies are located on the rear face of the surface. There is a pivoting system for pivoting the clamp dog around an axis. The pivoting system is operable from both the front surface and the rear surface of the mounting flange so that the clamp dogs can be actuated from either side of the sheet rock or ceiling tile.
US07780133B2
A suspending element has a wire section (12) and a support member (11) having a pot-shaped receptacle (21) for receiving an eyelet-shaped first end (15) of the wire section (12), and a clamping element (18) for securing the eyelet-shaped first end (15) of the wire section (12) in the pot-shaped receptacle (21).
US07780122B1
A telescopic pipe support system is provided for supporting a plurality of pipes. The pipe support system utilizes an elongated, tubular shaft adapted to be mounted atop and below wood flooring as well as below concrete decking via a shaft receiving anchor and an auxiliary anchor, respectively. Hanger elements are removably attached along various longitudinal positions of the shaft in order to quickly and easily support construction articles.
US07780118B2
A radiation shield for use with a manned spacecraft is claimed. The shield has a container that is substantially filled with a substantially radiation absorbing material. The container has attachment members that cooperate with corresponding attachment members on the inner surface of a spacecraft. The radiation absorbing material provides a measure of protection to crewmembers and equipment against particle radiation that is present in space.
US07780114B2
A modular galley for an aircraft comprises several vertical and horizontal structural elements, and usage areas provided therebetween for accommodating slide-in devices, built-in devices or items of equipment. The galley comprises first structural elements that form an essentially unchangeable basic element which comprises connection elements for the mechanical connection of second structural elements, add-on devices, built-in devices, items of equipment and/or slide-in devices that are variable, and comprises interfaces for the supply to items of equipment that are provided in the galley wherein the connection elements and interfaces are standardized such that various structural elements, add-on devices, built-in devices, items of equipment and/or slide-in devices can be interchanged or can be affixed at various locations.
US07780111B2
A roll storage module comprises a storage roll (4) and a band roll (1). A band (3) extends between the storage and band rolls, the rolls being rotatable so that the band can be rolled around and unrolled from each roll. A storage roll motor (5) applies a rotational torque directly to the storage roll (4), a band roll motor (2) applies a rotational torque directly to the band roll (1). A control system (6) controls the motors (2,5) so as to cause the band (3) to roll on and unroll from the storage and band rolls (1,4) respectively in a determined manner. The control system includes a processor (6) for monitoring rotation of the band roll (1), and for calculating one or more parameters relating to the band (3) based on the monitored band roll rotation thereby to control the band and storage roll motors to rotate their respective rolls in the determined manner.
US07780101B2
The invention relates to a method and device for separating a mixture made of particles of a first particle type and a second particle type, especially aleurone particles and shell particles made of comminuted bran, said particles being scarcely distinguishable in terms of size and density, into various types of particles. Separation occurs according to particle-type specific triboelectric charging of said particles in a first active area and subsequent separation of the differently charged moving particles in an electric field.
US07780097B2
An impeller system is provided for the delivery of a fluid, such as liquid manure, through a manifold system to a plurality of hoses. The impeller includes multiple blades for driving the fluid toward the manifold outlets. The impeller also includes a plurality of shut-off gates to close off multiple outlets and, therefore, increase the pressure to the remaining outlets. As the impeller rotates, openings to various outlets are opened and closed, thereby increasing the pressure of the fluid delivered to each of the outlets.
US07780095B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus utilizing ultrasonic vibrations to force movement of protrusions to spray a fluid. The apparatus includes a horn with an internal chamber. Within the internal chamber of the horn are protrusions extending from a wall of the chamber. When the horn is vibrated, a fluid is expelled from the horn by the oscillation of the protrusions. Fluid to be expelled from the horn enters the internal chamber of the horn through at least one channel passing through a wall of the horn and leading into the chamber. After passing through the horn's internal chamber, the fluid exits the horn by passing through a channel originating in the front wall of the chamber and ending at the horn's radiation surface. A transducer may be connected to the horn's proximal end to generate ultrasonic vibrations throughout the length of the horn.
US07780093B2
A spray nozzle includes an orifice disposed on a substantially planar discharge surface. An impingement surface is disposed opposite the orifice, the impingement surface forming an angle with a centerline of the orifice. The angle between the orifice centerline and the surface is less than 90 degrees. A deflection ridge bridges a gap between the impingement surface and the discharge surface. The deflection ridge encompasses a partial circumference of the nozzle. The nozzle includes a fluid fitting adapted for providing a pressurized fluid to the orifice.
US07780091B2
An authorized sample receiver configured to verify an RF device in response to proffered biometric sample data is disclosed. The authorized sample receiver may be configured to receive data from the RF device and decrypt an encrypted authentication code using a unique device identification code. The RF device is authenticated in response to verifying proffered biometric sample data and the authentication code.
US07780090B2
A chip card holder includes a body member, a card receiving space formed on the body member and a releasing piece. The releasing piece is slidablely mounted on the body member along a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the card receiving space and is slid to be in front of the opening of the card receiving space to lock the chip card in the card receiving space or to expose the opening of the card receiving space to unlock the chip card.
US07780089B2
A portable hand held optical reader having a specially constructed two-dimensional image sensor array is operational in a bar code decoding mode and in a picture taking mode. The specially constructed image sensor array, in one embodiment, is a hybrid monochrome and color image sensor pixel array, wherein a first subset of the pixels are monochrome pixels devoid of wavelength selective color filter elements and a second subset of the pixels are color sensitive pixels including wavelength selective color filter elements.
US07780086B2
A plurality of solid-state imagers is mounted in a reader, such as a bi-optical, dual window, point-of-transaction workstation, for capturing images along different fields of view of diverse targets useful for customer identification, customer payment validation, operator surveillance, and coded indicia. The imagers are commonly mounted on a circuit board for joint installation at, and joint removal from, the reader for ease of serviceability.
US07780084B2
Systems and methods for 2-D barcode recognition are described. In one aspect, the systems and methods use a charge coupled camera capturing device to capture a digital image of a 3-D scene. The systems and methods evaluate the digital image to localize and segment a 2-D barcode from the digital image of the 3-D scene. The 2-D barcode is rectified to remove non-uniform lighting and correct any perspective distortion. The rectified 2-D barcode is divided into multiple uniform cells to generate a 2-D matrix array of symbols. A barcode processing application evaluates the 2-D matrix array of symbols to present data to the user.
US07780083B2
The invention describes a device (10) and a method for protecting a self-service terminal against fraudulent installation of spying-out apparatuses for spying-out information, which device and method are based on the detection of metallic components of the spying-out apparatus. The device (10) comprises a control unit (12) and a peripheral (24) which is connected to the control unit (12) via an interface (26, 28, 30). The sound card (24) has an output for an analog output signal, to which output a coil (52, 56) for generating a primary electromagnetic field can be connected, and an input for an analog detection signal, to which input a second coil (60, 64) for detecting a secondary electromagnetic field, which is influenced by the interaction of the primary electromagnetic field with the metallic components of the spying-out apparatus, can be connected. The control unit (12) actuates the sound card (24) in order to generate the primary electromagnetic field via the interface (26, 28, 30) and/or receives the digitized detection signal and analyzes said signal in order to determine whether a foreign metallic object is present.
US07780081B1
The three major problems of retail/wholesale industry, i.e. Security, Inventory, Self CheckOut (SISCO) are achieved by “virtual salesperson” and provided by synergism techniques of 5W's (Weight, Who, What, Where and When). A system that includes combination of steps and/or means for uniquely identifying each and every product (UPC/USID indicium), at a vendor retail premises; steps and/or means for protecting the product/property (brain-like recognition); steps and/or means for detecting/registering a product at a vendor retail premises that has been taken from its storage or display location; steps and/or means for registering that the product has been put into a customer's shopping cart; steps and/or means for tracking customer's location with a unique ID tagging wireless device to a shopping cart; steps and/or means for automatically transacting a purchase of the product, steps and/or means for paying for the product at the vicinity of the products location with laptop/net computers at both ends of exit aisle and/or more computers at convenient places with attached scanner and card payment device; steps and/or means for notifying the customer to pay if the product has not been properly or timely paid for; any missed/unwanted items will be accounted for at reduced manned checkout stations, to received itemized purchases receipt and to sign signature, and steps and/or means for customer ID checking in and checking out by “security guard” wirelessly scans customer's receipt for inventory/security tracking.
US07780080B2
A portable, biometrically-secured device for facilitating various different types of in-person and online transactions. For example, the portable, biometrically-secured device can be used to safely perform in-person financial transactions, such as credit card transactions, in which the user's identity is biometrically authenticated. The portable, biometrically-secured device can also be used for performing biometrically-secured online transactions. For example, the portable, biometrically-secured device can be used to create a secure platform from which to make the online transactions by loading a secure operating system from the device to a host computer's volatile memory. Biometrically-secured online transactions can then be performed using the host computer. In one embodiment, the portable, biometrically-secured device facilitates online financial transactions that can be performed without transmitting a user's financial information to the online merchant.
US07780079B2
An apparatus comprises a data storage medium; a remote unit; and an authorization unit for encrypting information to be stored on the storage medium and for controlling access to data stored on the data storage medium in response to the access control signals received from the remote unit. A method of controlling access to data stored on the data storage medium is also provided.
US07780070B2
A method of manufacturing aircraft includes removably securing a target to a portion of the aircraft in a predetermined position on the portion of the aircraft. The method further includes scanning the target with a scanning device to acquire information about at least one of a location and orientation of the target. The method also includes processing the acquired information to determine at least one of a location and orientation of the portion of the aircraft. In addition, the method includes working the aircraft using the processed information and removing the target from the portion of the aircraft before completing manufacture of the aircraft.
US07780067B2
A carton, having reinforced handle openings which define handles, includes a tubular structure that is formed from multiple walls. An edge flap connects two of the walls. The carton also includes end closures at each open end of the tubular structure. The end closures each include end flaps that have features that define the handles. The end closures also include edge flap reinforcing panels that are hingedly connected to the edge flap and further define the handle. Specifically, a reinforcing edge of the edge flap reinforcing panel is disposed in reinforcing proximity to a handle opening so as to reinforce at least a weight bearing edge of the handle opening to define a handle with a multi-ply thick weight bearing edge.
US07780051B2
A collapsible bag or container includes first and second major pockets separated by a connecting web into which a metal frame is removably inserted. Alternatively, a plastic or rigid board member is substituted for the metal frame. Loops and handles project through the web for attachment of a carrier strap or manual handle. Another embodiment includes rigid end panels connected by a rigid bottom panel and a rigid handle with a flexible interior dividing wall supported by straps attached to the rigid handle and by attachment to the end panels and bottom panel.
US07780049B1
An easy to use notebook computer support system which will fit virtually any notebook or laptop computer. It has comfortable shoulder pads and allows access to all ports (front, back and side). In particular, it allows access data ports, power ports as well as disk drives. Significantly, the system according to the invention comprises only straps and little strap hardware so that it can fold up and fit into any type of laptop carrying case. Unlike other supports, the present invention does not block the ventilation fan(s) on the bottom of the computer.
US07780026B1
A stackable container includes top and bottom surfaces; opposing side surfaces; opposing end surfaces; and interlock mechanisms on at least one of 1) the top and bottom surfaces, 2) the opposing side surfaces and 3) the opposing end surfaces. Because of the interlock mechanisms, a plurality of the containers may be stacked and shipped, such as on a pallet, without the use of support bands.
US07780023B2
A container is provided for storing a product, such as a fat containing liquid product, and includes a body defining a chamber for receiving the product; and a container closure including a sealing portion for sealing the product within the chamber. The container closure includes a member forming a substantially fluid-tight seal between the container closure and the body; a nipple in fluid communication with the chamber that seals the chamber with respect to the ambient atmosphere during storage of the product in the chamber and that can be opened to dispense product from the chamber therethrough; and a needle penetrable and laser resealable portion that is penetrable by the needle for aseptically filling the chamber with the product, and that is thermally resealable by the application of laser radiation thereto to seal the product within the chamber.
US07780015B1
Apparatus and methods provide individual blades driven by drives configured to reduce a tendency of sludge to be moved in an undesired return direction. Drive configurations apply “pull” and “pull” forces that only pull on tensile structures, avoiding a need in actual commercial practice for use of extra structural drive members having high resistance to both tension and compressive forces exerted parallel to a sludge movement direction. Each of two separate tensile structures carries one blade, or a separate set of blades, with blade(s) of one structure adjacent to, and alternating with, blade(s) of the other structure. Embodiments move sludge from a corner of a basin and across a floor of the basin. The reduced tendency of sludge movement in the return direction results from moving one tensile structure and blade(s) in the sludge movement direction as the other tensile structure and adjacent opposed blade(s) move in the return direction.
US07780010B2
An electronic device packaging apparatus for packaging an electronic device includes a box and a cushioning member. The cushioning member is integrally formed as a one-piece, unitary member and disposed within the box. The cushioning member includes a central shelf component and a pair of leg components. Each of the leg components has an outer leg component and an inner leg component. The inner leg component with a through hole extends between the outer leg component and the central shelf component. Inner side faces of the outer leg components contact with upper edge portions of the electronic device, respectively.
US07780009B2
A package for batteries comprising at least two separate modules and a cover placed over the at least two separate modules. Each module includes a base having a first face and a second face, with each module further including at least one pocket extending outwardly from the first face. Each pocket is configured and sized to accept a battery therein. Two of the at least two separate modules have the first faces thereof facing each other, with at least one pocket of a first one of the two of the at least two separate modules being located between a pair of pockets of a second one of the two of the at least two separate modules. The at least two separate modules are easily separated upon removal of the cover from over the at least two separate modules.
US07780000B2
An anti-theft display case for manufactured products; in particular, display cases that can be opened and re-closed to contain the product to be displayed and provided with means of maintaining the case closed up to completion of sale, so as to prevent the unauthorized removal of the product. The anti-theft display case is provided with at least one first portion and one second portion, one mobile in relation to the other between an open and a closed position, and a means of locking said portions in the said closed position. The second portion is formed from at least two pieces bound one to the other and mobile one in relation to the other telescopically to increase the volume of the display case.
US07779999B2
A spool packaging is provided, including a plurality of disks, each having an axial hole therethrough, and arranged in a stack, a plurality of strip supports disposed in the stack such that each pair of adjacent disks is separated by at least four strip supports. The at least four strip supports form a substantially quadrilateral arrangement, and the axial holes of the pair of adjacent disks are disposed at a center of the quadrilateral arrangement. Hardware and closures are disposed between the adjacent disks within the quadrilateral arrangement.
US07779997B2
The carrier has a central vertical support panel structure, and a pair of foldable receptacles extending outwardly from opposite sides of the vertical support structure. The receptacles have automatically-opening bottom walls with symmetrical bottom panels which overlap to even-out the strength of the bottom walls and minimize areas of reduced strength. At least two opposed bottom panels are shaped to interlock with one another to hold the carrier open once it has been unfolded. Elongated, connected reinforcing flanges strengthen the carrier in the vertical direction.
US07779992B2
A shopping cart conveyor system that moves a shopping cart from one location to another along a path. The system includes a frame, a track coupled to the frame, and a conveyor coupled to the frame and having an engagement member (e.g., multiple engagement members) adapted to engage a shopping cart. The engagement member is movable (e.g., pivotable) relative to the track from a first position, where the engagement member will engage and move the shopping cart along the path, and a second position, where the engagement member is capable of releasing engagement of the shopping cart. Preferably, the engagement member is biased toward the first position (e.g., by a resilient member). In one embodiment, the engagement member includes an engagement surface adapted to engage the shopping cart and defining an engagement angle between the engagement surface and a reference axis parallel to the path. In this embodiment, the engagement angle is acute when the engagement member is in the first position and is obtuse when the engagement member is in the second position.
US07779991B2
A material gathering apparatus with a bucket; a motor having a shaft; and a plurality of blades; in which the hydraulic motor is fixed below the bucket; and the plurality of blades are fixed within the bucket and are rotatable clockwise or counterclockwise around the shaft.
US07779987B2
An assembly comprises a bulk material belt conveyor system and a carryback sampling device. The bulk material belt conveyor system comprises a belt and a structural frame. The belt is supported by the structural frame and has a downwardly facing portion. The belt is configured to traverse relative to the structural frame. The carryback sampling device comprises at least a first support member, a carryback receptacle, and a carryback scraper. The first support member is pivotally attached to the structural frame about an axis. The carryback scraper and the carryback receptacle are attached to the structural frame via the first support member in a manner such that pivotal movement of the first support member about the axis relative to the structural frame brings the carryback scraper into engagement with the downwardly facing portion of the belt with the carryback receptacle positioned therebeneath.
US07779973B2
A transmission mechanism with the function of the shock absorption includes a transmission unit adapted to receive a drive gear set within a housing; a motor mounted on the external side of the housing for providing the drive gear set with necessary driving power; a transmission rod disposed within the drive gear set to allow for a power transmission; a shock-absorbing unit including a fixing sleeve being disposed at the external side of the housing with respect to the internal end of the transmission rod, a shock-absorbing spring being installed within the fixing sleeve, a telescopic lever being adapted to actuate the shock-absorbing spring; and an adjusting unit interposed between the transmission rod and the shock-absorbing unit. In comparison with the prior art having problems of incomplete integrity and inadequate shock absorption, the invention has an integral configuration and ensures an excellent shock absorption.
US07779970B1
A brake assembly for braking a wheel of a bicycle includes left and right brake arms and left and right brake shoes. Each brake shoe includes a holder mounted to the respective brake arm, a pad unit mounted on the holder and having a friction surface that is brought to frictionally engage a rim side of a wheel rim of the wheel, and a magnetically attracting unit mounted on the holder for establishing a magnetic field such that, in the course of a braking action, the strength of the established magnetic field is gradually increased to be of a magnitude sufficient to generate a dragging force to decelerate the running speed of the wheel rim until the friction surface frictionally engages the rim side.
US07779962B2
A muffler is disclosed. In the muffler a throttling device that is controlled by the energy of the airflow to be muffled is provided in a pipeline of the airflow that needs to be muffled. The muffler is adjusted by itself according to random variety of the pulsing airflow, and can eliminate or reduce effectively the pulsation of the airflow and the related noise in the range of the low frequency and the middle frequency. The muffling effect of the muffler has no correlation with the volume of the muffler, and therefore the volume of the muffler can be reduced.
US07779959B2
An electric power steering apparatus comprises a driving gear driven by an electric motor for steering assist and a driven gear meshed with the driving gear. A steering shaft is rotated along with the driven gear. The steering shaft is rotatably supported by a first bearing and a second bearing. An urging member is arranged in a recess provided in a housing. The urging member urges at least one of the first bearing and the second bearing in a direction in which a center-to-center distance between the driving gear and the driven gear increases.
US07779954B2
A readily transportable and rapidly deployable vehicle immobilization device is provided. The exhaust of an internal combustion engine is obstructed, resulting in choking off and stopping of the engine. In an aspect, a plug is provided having an extension fixed to the plug for human grasping, and facilitating insertion into an end of a vehicle exhaust pipe. In an aspect the plug expands upon being heated and is adhesive to the exhaust pipe for at least partially sealing the exhaust pipe. In another aspect, a length of adhesive material is attached to the front of a pursuing vehicle and engages an end of an exhaust pipe of a fleeing vehicle.
US07779951B1
A rear assembly for motorcycles having a frame with two rear parallel and spaced apart backbone members. Two molded halves of the rear portion are made from moldable sheet metal and welded together defining a seat side with an adjacent fender, as a unitary piece with an underside and a continuous peripheral edge. The edge is welded to the rear backbone members resulting in a braced structure. The process includes the steps of cutting two pieces of sheet metal with a predetermined shape that after being molded and welded together define an upper rear portion with a peripheral edge that is welded to the rear backbone members of the frame. Finishing steps including polishing and painting the resulting structure.
US07779945B2
A method for the production of a steering spindle part is provided. The method includes forming a section of a steering spindle for a motor vehicle and which is implemented in the form of a hollow shaft and includes at least a connection section adjoining one of its ends. The connection section has at least over a portion of its length a wall thickness (D) which, compared to a section of the steering spindle part adjoining the connection section, is increased, for the production of the steering spindle part as the starting produce is utilized an initially hollow-cylindrical tube, which is at least section-wise reshaped. For the formation of the connection section, a sleeve is set into an end section of the tube and the end section of the tube and of sleeve are subsequently jointly reshaped.
US07779943B2
A hybrid-powered slow-speed vehicle (400) fundamentally comprising battery-electric slow-speed (BESS) vehicle (107) plus auxiliary-drive ICE-powertrain (200), hub-coaxial wheel positioner (269) and auxiliary-drive operational controller assembly (300); powertrain (200) having [a] high energy-density fuel supply (203), sufficient auxiliary driveline operational space (283) urged by wheel-positioner (269), [c] auxiliary-power driveline (235), component couplings of the driveline (235) ending with operable attachment of distal powerwheel (256) to auxiliary-driveline rear traction-wheel (262); operational controller assembly (300) within vehicle-driver zone (110); hybridized BESS-vehicle (400) extending travel range (145) of original BESS-vehicle (107), utilizing primary electric powertrain (151) and auxiliary ICE-powertrain (200) in various cooperative sequences and combinations of operations, retaining many advantages of original vehicle (107), while adding others, especially notably the opportunities to extend battery life, to augment vehicle power, and to increase the attainable primary travel-range (145) between plug-in rechargings of primary battery (154).
US07779940B2
Disclosed are vehicles and methods for transporting materials.
US07779934B1
A flexible/rigid drilling assembly that can be flexible enough to bend around and into a curved hole form a vertical well to the horizontal with a short horizontal hole extension. When the flexible/rigid drilling assembly is placed in the short horizontal hole extension it can be converted to a rigid assembly and provide stability for a drill bit on its end to drill a straight horizontal out into an oil, gas or water. High static drilling fluid pressure with low compression force on the flexible/rigid drilling assembly is used to keep it in a flexible configuration while being placed in the short horizontal hole extension. Then the flexible/rigid drilling assembly is rotated to release the high static drilling fluid pressure. With the high static drilling fluid pressure released and with the high compression forces required to operate the drill bit the flexible/rigid drilling assembly transition into its rigid configuration and provide stability for a drill bit in drilling a straight horizontal drain hole.
US07779927B2
A non-metallic element system is provided as part of a downhole tool that can effectively seal or pack-off an annulus under elevated temperatures. The element system can also resist high differential pressures without sacrificing performance or suffering mechanical degradation, and is considerably faster to drill-up than a conventional element system. In one aspect, the composite material comprises an epoxy blend reinforced with glass fibers stacked layer upon layer at about 30 to about 70 degrees. In another aspect, a mandrel is formed of a non-metallic polymeric composite material. A downhole tool, such as a bridge plug, frac-plug, or packer, is also provided. The tool comprises a support ring having one or more wedges, an expansion ring, and a sealing member positioned with the expansion ring.
US07779918B2
A wellbore control device (10) for sealing a wellbore is described. The device has, in a preferred arrangement, two opposed cutting rams (16, 18) which are coupled to respective linkage mechanisms (26, 28). The linkage mechanisms translate axial movement of a piston into radial movement to move the rams towards each other in the device throughbore. This results in an effective wellbore control device having a compact size and shape which can be encompassed within a wellbore.
US07779916B2
A subsea intervention system is disclosed comprising a floating vessel and a source of coiled tubing at the floating vessel. The system includes a seabed installation including a wellhead and compliant guide having one end operatively connected to the floating vessel and the second end operatively connected to the seabed installation. The compliant guide provides a conduit between the floating vessel and the wellhead for the coiled tubing. At least one injector is present at the floating vessel for inserting the coiled tubing into the compliant guide, and a carousel is proximate the wellhead which comprises a plurality of chambers with intervention tools in at least two of those chambers. The system may also include a plurality of sensing units that are disposed at spaced intervals along the compliant guide to monitor various aspects of the compliant guide and to transmit that information to a repositioning system.
US07779913B2
There is a method for enhancing the recovery of oil from a reservoir. The method has the step of a) introducing a flooding fluid into the reservoir and b) extracting the oil through a wellbore at a location different than the point of introduction of the flooding fluid into the reservoir. The flooding fluid has water and an amount of one or more non-polymeric viscoelastic surfactants sufficient to provide an interfacial surface tension of about 1 mNm or less and a viscosity of about 10 cps or more. The one or more surfactants is selected from the group of one or more cationic surfactants, one or more zwitterionic surfactants, one or more amphoteric surfactants, one or more anionic surfactants, and combinations thereof.
US07779911B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for providing hydraulic load compensated time delay in downhole well operations. The apparatus includes a piston stem enclosed by a piston housing. An axial force, acting either in the direction of stretch or in the direction of compression, causes a pressure buildup in one of two hydraulic chambers which are each filled with an incompressible liquid and which are mutually connected through one or more throttle orifices. A sideways floating, supported piston sleeve is arranged between the piston stem and the piston housing. The piston sleeve is adapted to control the differential pressure across the throttle orifice(s) in such a manner that an increasing axial force will, in a predetermined manner, increase the differential pressure across the throttle orifice(s) and hence delay the flow-through of the incompressible liquid from one of the hydraulic chambers to the other chamber, which also causes a predetermined delay of the relative movement between the piston stem and the piston housing.
US07779896B2
A fluid recovery system is adapted for use with a cooling system, such as for use in electronic applications. In one example, an enclosure is configured to contain fluid in both gas and liquid states, wherein the fluid is adapted for use in spray cooling electronic components. A plurality of pick-up ports is defined within the enclosure. In one implementation of the cooling system, an orifice size used in each of the pick-up ports results in withdrawal of fluid from submerged and non-submerged pick-up ports.
US07779889B2
A process for manufacturing at least one single-crystal seed that can be used as a starter seed in the manufacture of a single-crystal high-pressure turbine nozzle, with at least one vane between two platforms, by metal casting, is disclosed. The process includes producing a wax pattern that includes a pattern for the nozzle, a pattern for the starter seed, and a pattern for a crude seed; forming a ceramic shell mold from the wax pattern; incorporating a starter seed into the mold; pouring metal into the mold; directionally solidifying the metal in the mold from the starter seed; and separating the crude seed from the nozzle. The starter seed and the crude seed each include a flat face for localizing the crystalline orientations. The crude seed has the same crystallographic structure as the nozzle.
US07779884B2
A multi-layer laminating press including hot plates arranged over top of and movable in reference to each other, conveyers revolving around the hot plates, sealing elements that assist in forming vacuum chambers between each of a first hot plate and a respectively adjacent second hot plate arranged thereabove when the press is closed. The second conveyor lower run of the second hot plate rests on the first conveyor upper run of the first hot plate and the work piece to be laminated is arranged between the first conveyor upper run and the second conveyor lower run in the vacuum chamber. Connections are provided to pressurize and/or evacuate the vacuum chambers. The vacuum chambers are limited by either the first hot plate and the second conveyor lower run, or the second hot plate and the first conveyor upper run, without the interposition of another membrane for laminating the workpiece.
US07779883B2
A device for forming a self-assembled film on a substrate containing a film precursor includes a first heating member and a second heating member disposed adjacent to the first heating member, the second heating member being separated from the first heating member by a gap. The device includes a movable pusher member configured for advancing the substrate from the first heating member to the second heating member.
US07779879B2
A machine for making two-color expandable salts includes a feeding unit to feed two strips of different colors to a combining unit which includes a cutting blade and a ultra-wave generator, the cutting blade cuts surplus from two sides of each of the two strips and the two strips are securely connected to each other along two respective sides thereof so as to form the expandable slat. A scrolling unit includes a scrolling wheel which to scroll the expandable slat from the combining unit. A control unit includes a programmable controller and multiple tension detection members which detect tension of the strips and the expandable slat, the tension is sent to the programmable controller which adjusts speed of the feeding wheels and scrolling wheel.
US07779876B2
A reinforced blade for use in a tire vulcanization mold is provided. The reinforced blade, having a thickness of less than 0.030 inches, is configured to form a sipe in a tread of a tire in the tire vulcanization mold. The reinforced blade includes a main segment and a support segment extending from one end portion of the main segment of the reinforced blade and configured to support the end portion of the main segment of the reinforced blade in the mold during vulcanization.
US07779867B2
The present invention relates to a miniature valve, which includes a valve body comprising an inflow channel, an outflow channel and a liquid chamber, and a close assembly comprising a driver, a rocker and a valve film. The close assembly connects to the valve body and is configured to selectively close the inflow channel and the outflow channel. The rocker can be driven by the driver to move, so that the movement thereof acts on the valve film and makes the valve film selectively close the channel. The rocker and the valve film are separate components. The valve film, an elastic film locating in the liquid chamber, has a size configured to cover the inflow channel and the outflow channel. The miniature valve according to the present invention doesn't have interior dead area and has a slight effect on liquid fluctuation when switching channels.
US07779865B2
A control disk for a fluid valve has a disk body having at least one through hole, the body having an upper surface for contacting another control element of the valve and an opposed lower surface. The upper surface is formed with a raised undulating contact surface. The raised undulating contact surface defines pockets suitable for receiving a lubricant.
US07779860B2
The present invention provides an airflow control mechanism comprising a conduit for air having an inlet located at a first end thereof and an outlet located at a second end thereof; a first opening formed in a side of said conduit and able to provide a secondary inlet thereto; a movable collar at least partially surrounding said conduit at a location alignable with said first opening, such that said collar is able to at least partially occlude said first opening; further comprising a second opening beside the first opening as part of the secondary inlet, wherein the collar is also alignable with the second opening, such that the collar is able to at least partially occlude the second opening at the same time as the first opening. Thus with this airflow control mechanism, a user may select whether to occlude both the first and the second openings, in which case air will pass directly from the inlet to the outlet without any air also entering through the secondary inlet, or to occlude neither the first and second openings, in which case air entering the secondary inlet will contribute to the total amount of air exiting the outlet, or to occlude just one of the first and second openings, in which case, a fixed amount of air which is less than the secondary inlet being fully open, but more than the secondary inlet being fully closed, will enter through the secondary inlet and contribute to the total amount of air exiting the outlet. Thus the user will be provided with a highly predictable and repeatable setting for the airflow control mechanism between the fully open and fully closed positions of the secondary inlet.
US07779842B1
An improved high efficiency suction control valve providing unobstructed fluid flow in its activated suction applied mode for removal of viscous secretions at a low level of applied input suction through the catheter. The valve provides positive sealing between a hand-operated plunger and the valve passageway walls against which the plunger engages by slightly over sizing the plunger walls such that the plunger walls expand against a further suction passageway. Similar sealing is provided between the plunger and passageway above the suction passageway.
US07779829B2
A solar thermal energy collector manifold is provided. The manifold is connected to solar collector tubes for collecting solar energy. A fluid is used to transfer the heat collected from the collector tubes. The manifold includes an inlet path for receiving the fluid, a fluid flow path for transferring the fluid to the solar collector tubes, and an outlet path for outputting the heated fluid. To facilitate the flow paths, the manifold includes a plate with depressions.
US07779828B2
A barbecue grill with a movable heater includes a main body having at least a rail, a heater movably resting on the rail, and a storing plate closable on the main body. The heater can be freely moved to and from above baking foods placed on a net to let a user operate conveniently and safely. And, with the storing plate closed on the main body, not only the heat can be kept in the main body to shorten baking time for saving energy, but also the well-baked foods and the frozen foods can be put on the storing plate for respectively keeping warm and being unfrozen to increase space.
US07779824B2
A crossbow includes a safety mechanism located on the stock of the crossbow that prevents the crossbow from firing until the safety mechanism is properly engaged. The safety mechanism includes a push button that requires the operator appendages to be securely below the path of the traveling bolt before the trigger mechanism will release.
US07779823B2
An engine is operated with a first cylinder to provide a net flow of gases from the engine intake to the engine exhaust while a second cylinder returns combusted gases back to the intake to control a timing of auto-ignition combustion in the first cylinder.
US07779815B2
An injection system includes a high-pressure pump with at least one pumping element operated in a reciprocating manner by corresponding intake and discharge strokes. Each pumping element is equipped with a corresponding intake valve in communication with an intake line, fed by a low-pressure pump. An on-off solenoid valve is positioned on the intake line of the pump and is controlled by a control unit with a frequency equal to a whole multiple or submultiple of that of the pumping action, multiplied by a factor different from 1 and/or between 0.90 and 1.10, inclusive.
US07779814B2
A fuel injection apparatus includes an accumulator, an injector, a fuel supplier supplying fuel to the accumulator, and a controller controlling a fuel supply rate of the fuel supplier through manipulation of a manipulated variable. The controller is configured to set a target fuel supply rate, determine a base target value of the manipulated variable as a first function of the target fuel supply rate, determine a correction value as a second function of the target fuel supply rate, correct the base target value of the manipulated variable using the correction value to obtain a final target value of the manipulated variable, and manipulate the manipulated variable to have the final target value, thereby bringing the fuel supply rate of the fuel supplier into agreement with the target fuel supply rate. The first and second functions are predefined prior to the installation of the fuel injection apparatus to an engine.
US07779810B2
A fuel injection method for internal combustion engines with gasoline direct fuel injection systems comprises receiving a crankshaft position signal from a crankshaft position sensor. A position of a crankshaft is determined from the crankshaft position signal. Fuel is commanded at a first rate when the position of the crankshaft is within a first selectable range during a combustion cycle of an engine cylinder and fuel is commanded at a second rate when the position of the crankshaft is within a second selectable range during the combustion cycle of the engine cylinder.
US07779806B2
An air intake manifold assembly includes an air intake manifold and a insert that is permanently bonded to an inner surface of the air intake manifold. By bonding the insert to the manifold, a dead space is formed between the insert and the manifold, which reduces the plenum volume within the manifold.
US07779801B2
A camshaft adjuster (1) for an internal combustion engine is provided, which includes a housing (21) and in which a relative angular position between a driving gear (22′) and an output element allocated to the camshaft is adjustable. In a first connection region (28), the housing is connected in a fixed manner to a support element (20) which is connected in a fixed fashion to a plastic toothed ring (19) in a radially outward direction in a second connection region (29). The outer surface of the carrier element (20) fits an inner surface of the toothed ring (19) in the second connection region (29). The carrier element (20) makes it possible to bridge the radial gap between the toothed ring (19) and the outer surface of the housing (21), and the second connection region accurately predefines a position of the toothed ring (19).
US07779797B2
An engine valve operating system is provided in which a roller in rolling contact with a valve operating cam of a camshaft is axially supported via a roller shaft on a roller support portion provided on a first rocker arm, a second rocker arm having a cylindrical boss portion pivotably supported on a support shaft and an arm portion extending from the boss portion and having a sliding surface that is in sliding contact with the roller shaft is operatively connected to an engine valve, and the position of either one of first and second rocker arm swing axes is changed within a plane perpendicular to the axis of the camshaft, wherein at least the roller support portion (38) of the first rocker arm (23) is disposed at a position that overlaps the second rocker arm (26A, 26B) in plan view. This can provide an engine valve operating system that enables the size thereof to be reduced in a direction along the axis of the camshaft.
US07779793B2
An engine and a generator driven by the engine are resiliently supported on a frame. A duct member is integrally attached to the engine and the generator to define a continuous cooling-air passage between the duct member and outer peripheral surfaces of the engine and the generator. A cooling fan is disposed on an inlet side of the cooling-air passage. A silencing plate is integrally attached to the duct member and faces an inlet of the cooling-air passage with a ventilation gap defined therebetween. The silencing plate has an area opposing the inlet that is larger than an opening area of the inlet.
US07779786B2
A removable seed deflector for a bird feeder is disclosed that can be installed into the bottom open bottom end and a side wall of the bird feeder. A base member interfittingly engages the bottom end of the tubular body member. The base member includes at least one aperture defining at least one seat, respectively. The base member is releasably secured to the tubular body member of a feeder. A seed deflector is releasably secured to the base member and includes at least one downwardly depending leg that releasably engages with the seats, respectively, in the base member.
US07779784B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to an apparatus and method of plasma assisted deposition by generation of a plasma adjacent a processing region. One embodiment of the apparatus comprises a substrate processing chamber including a top shower plate, a power source coupled to the top shower plate, a bottom shower plate, and an insulator disposed between the top shower plate and the bottom shower plate. In one aspect, the power source is adapted to selectively provide power to the top shower plate to generate a plasma from the gases between the top shower plate and the bottom shower plate. In another embodiment, a power source is coupled to the top shower plate and the bottom shower plate to generate a plasma between the bottom shower plate and the substrate support. One embodiment of the method comprises performing in a single chamber one or more of the processes including, but not limited to, cyclical layer deposition, combined cyclical layer deposition and plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition; plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition; and/or chemical vapor deposition.
US07779781B2
In an immersion lithography apparatus, the immersion liquid is supplied from a tank via a flow restrictor. The liquid held in the tank is maintained at a substantially constant height above the flow restrictor to ensure a constant flow of liquid.
US07779779B2
The present application is directed to a spray booth comprising a first enclosure for applying spray material and a second enclosure for drying spray material. An exhaust system is in fluid connection with the first and second enclosures. A fire suppression system is in fluid connection with at least one component chosen from the first enclosure, the second enclosure and the exhaust system. A processor is in data communication with at least one component chosen from the spray enclosure, the drying enclosure, the exhaust system and the fire suppression system.
US07779777B2
A substrate-processing apparatus includes a sample table which mounts thereon a to-be-processed substrate, a first line which supplies a chemical solution, a second line which supplies a cleaning liquid, a three-way valve connected to the first and second lines and configured to select one of the first and second lines, a filter provided across the first line upstream of the three-way valve, and configured to eliminate a foreign material from the chemical solution, and a nozzle provided downstream of the three-way valve and configured to discharge the chemical solution or the cleaning liquid when the first or second line is selected via the three-way valve. The three-way valve selects the first line when the substrate is coated with the chemical solution, and selects the second line in other cases.
US07779775B2
An air purifier (10) is disclosed which includes a housing (11) having a top wall with a schedule indicator (14). The housing top wall has a central recess (16), an annular inner groove (18) positioned concentrically about the central well, and an annular outer groove (20) positioned concentrically about the inner groove. An annular plateau (28) is formed between the inner groove and the outer groove. A first reset ring (31) is positioned within the outer groove for rotational movement therein. The first reset ring includes two inwardly extending timing indicating tabs (32) and (33). A second reset ring (35) is positioned within the inner groove for rotational movement therein. The second reset ring includes two outwardly extending timing indicating tabs or indicators (36) and (37). A knob (43) coupled to a power switch (45) is positioned within the central well for rotational movement therein.
US07779774B2
A vehicle may utilize a faceplate, such as a non-circular faceplate, as part of an indicating instrument, such as a speedometer, in a dashboard. The speedometer utilizes a laser to direct laser light onto or through indicia, adjacent a numerical scale, of the faceplate. A first motor mounted to a printed circuit board is used to rotate the laser in a first plane, and a second motor is used to rotate the laser in a second plane. The laser may reside in a housing having a slit or slot for the laser light to pass through to illuminate the faceplate indicia. The first motor is mounted between the printed circuit board and the second motor while a connecting post may be utilized between the first and second motors to position the laser closer to the faceplate indicia, depending upon spatial packaging requirements and the laser light of the laser.
US07779769B2
An agricultural implement for distributing a product by dense phase flow is disclosed. The agricultural implement comprises a frame and a product distribution system configured to distribute the product to different positions on the frame by dense phase flow. The product distribution system includes a primary container configured to accommodate the product and includes a primary container inlet and a product exit. The product distribution system also includes a pressure supply assembly configured to provide a pressurized fluid and is in fluid communication with the primary container through the primary container inlet. The product distribution system also includes a distribution conduit that includes a conduit first end connected to the product exit and a conduit discharge end opposite the conduit first end.
US07779764B2
A pallet includes an upper deck, and first joining members that project downwardly from the upper deck. Each first joining member includes an outer sleeve and a post positioned therein. The pallet includes a lower deck, and second joining members that project upwardly from the lower deck. Each second joining member includes an inner sleeve and a post receiving cavity positioned therein. The first and second joining members are coupled together to define pallet blocks joining the upper and lower decks. Each inner sleeve and post receiving cavity of the second joining members receives a corresponding post and outer sleeve of the first joining members.
US07779757B2
A web-fed rotary printing press is structured having two end-surface defining side frames. At least one printing unit, with at least two cooperating printing unit cylinders, is supported between these side frames. At least one of the at least two cooperating cylinders is pre-assembled as a cylinder unit that has side frames and face engaging bearing unit. The at least one printing unit can be placed between the side frames as the one-piece cylinder unit comprising the structural cylinder.
US07779750B2
A closure mechanism particularly useful in a brewing device includes a cover member rotatably disposed above the brewing device. A slider member is slidably disposed within an interior cavity of the cover member and has one or more tabs which may extend outside of the interior cavity. The brewing device has one or more receptacles for receiving the tabs when the cover member is closed. A lid member on top of the cover member may push the tabs into the receptacles through a link member. A release arm is disposed within the brewing device and has at least one blocker which releasably holds a tab of the slider member within a receptacle when the cover member is closed.
US07779741B2
A semi-automatic firing carbine anti-jamming cartridge loading system is provided wherein no feed lips or a portion of said feed lips are removed, wherein the cartridge to be loaded is fed to the carbine breech along a feed ramp. A bolt enclosing the firing pin includes a pivot plate mounted on the bolt nose, rotating about an axle. A recess formed in the bolt nose provides spacing for the pivot plate to rotate about said axle. If the firing pin protrudes through an aperture formed in the pivot plate, while the pivot plate is still in its collapsed state, then the weapon will jam by the firing pin hanging on the top part of a rim portion of the next loading round, thereby thwarting attempts at reconfiguring the weapon, that employs my novel system, to be re-converted as a fully-automatic weapon.
US07779733B1
A method of removing a glow plug from a combustion engine utilizing a hand tool includeing two interconnected arms each being movable with respect to one another and each having a working end and an opposing handle portion. The hand tool may further include an extension body that has a generally tubular configuration. The extension body may have a first body portion and a second body portion wherein the first body portion extends from one of the interconnected arms and wherein the second body portion extends from the other of the interconnected arms and wherein each of the first body portion and the second body portion includes an interior surface that is threaded.
US07779731B1
An improved power assisted lever arm ratchet which has a 6″ to 30″ extension and drive shaft between the ratchet handle and the ratchet head.
US07779728B2
An arrangement for orienting a device angularly is provided with a back element on which the device to be oriented is installed. A ball and a spherical gear are arranged concentrically. A base portion has a socket that engages with the ball. Also, a motor having a rotatory shaft is installed on the base portion, and a worm drive element is coupled to the rotatory shaft and arranged to engage the spherical gear when the ball and socket are engaged, whereby the spherical gear is urged along the longitudinal axis of the tapered worm drive element and the tapered worm drive element slides along the gear teeth of the spherical gear. The motor enhances the rigidity of the base portion. The worm drive element and the spherical gear disengage in response to the application of a force through the first spherical gear.
US07779727B2
Power unit case configured to house both an engine and a transmission, and power unit including same
A power unit case for a power unit, including an internal combustion engine and a transmission, makes it possible to enhance the lubrication of a desired meshing portion of a group of transmission gears, while reducing the size of the engine. In the power unit case, a main shaft is arranged above a space between a crankshaft and a counter shaft arranged at a position substantially horizontally behind the crankshaft. A gear-ratio selecting member is arranged above a group of transmission gears on the counter shaft whose upper portion rotates toward a meshing portion between groups of transmission gears, and a lubricating projection that projects downwardly is formed in the transmission case above each of the transmission gears on the counter shaft and at a location on a ceiling surface of the transmission case where the gear-ratio selecting member is supported.
US07779724B2
An electrical bicycle shift control assembly is provided that includes at least one electrical bicycle shift control device. The shift control device includes a handlebar mounting portion configured to be clamped onto a handlebar and an electrical shift control switch portion. The electrical switch portion has an operating member arranged to move relative to the handlebar mounting portion between a neutral position and an actuating position. Preferably, the electrical switch portion is detachably coupled to the handlebar mounting portion via a mating mounting structure to be removable from the handlebar mounting portion without removing the handlebar mounting portion from the handlebar. Preferably, a bicycle computer unit including a display screen is supported by the handlebar mounting portion. The operating member can include a dial-shaped element or a lever-shaped element that is configured to rotate about an operating axis.
US07779717B2
A steering column assembly and method of preventing rotation of a tilt mechanism relative to a steering column during application of a predetermined force is disclosed. The tilt mechanism is coupled to the steering column and includes a tilt head pivotable about a tilt axis with a lever and a moveable shoe pivotally mounted to the tilt head respectively. The moveable shoe pivots between an engaged position for preventing rotation of the tilt head and a disengaged position for allowing rotation of the tilt head. A stopping member is coupled to at least one of the lever and the tilt head for deforming at least one of the tilt and the lever to maintain the moveable shoe in the engaged position and to prevent the tilt head from pivoting about the tilt axis upon a predetermined force applied to the steering column.
US07779715B2
A shifter includes an actuator, such as a shape memory alloy wire, to control movement of a set of strategically placed magnets on lever-position-controlling components of a vehicle transmission shift lever. In one arrangement, the actuator controls movement of a carrier carrying one or more of the magnets, the magnets controlling a position of a blocking member to prevent moving a pawl out of park position until predetermined vehicle conditions are met. Alternatively, the magnets can be carried by a cam, or slide, or wheel.
US07779714B2
A method for launching a vehicle having an engine shaft, first and second transmission input shafts, first and second input clutches, a coupler, a power path, and an output, the method including engaging the coupler to connect the first input shaft and the first output shaft through the power path, engaging the second input clutch to connect the engine shaft and the second input shaft mutually, using a speed of the second input shaft to determine a desired clutch torque capacity of the first input clutch, and actuating the first input clutch to produce the desired clutch torque capacity of the first input clutch and to complete a drive connection between the first input shaft and the output.
US07779712B2
The transmission comprises a gearbox having first and second input shafts coaxial to one another, wherein the second input shaft carries driving gearwheels associated to the even gears (second, fourth and sixth) and to the highest gear (sixth or seventh); and a clutch unit having first and second dry friction clutches arranged to couple a drive shaft of the motor vehicle respectively to the first and second input shafts of the gearbox. The first friction clutch associated to the first input shaft is normally disengaged, whereas the second friction clutch associated to the second input shaft is normally engaged.
US07779701B2
A high pressure, miniature pressure sensor has a cup-shaped housing having an open end closed by a metal substrate. A raised stress isolation pedestal portion is formed on the substrate that receives a stress isolation glass pedestal element and in turn a silicon pressure sense element, all having closely matched CTEs to minimize temperature induced stresses. A fluid passageway is formed through the substrate and glass pedestal and an O-ring is placed around the passageway on the lower side of the substrate. A flexible circuit having a slit tail formed with two lobes for receipt respectively in the housing and on the substrate allows easy access of a solder iron during assembly. Mounting flanges extend from the substrate to facilitate mounting of sensor and minimize transfer of mounting stresses to the sense element.
US07779700B2
A pressure sensor includes: a housing; a pressure input orifice opened at a pipe sleeve of the housing; a diaphragm sealing the pressure input orifice, the diaphragm having a first surface serving as a pressure receiving surface; a pressure sensitive unit using a direction of detecting a force as a detecting axis. A first end of the pressure sensitive unit is connected to a central area of a second surface of the diaphragm. A second end of the pressure sensitive unit is connected to the housing. The detecting axis is approximately orthogonal to the pressure receiving surface. A circumference of a portion where the central area and the first end of the pressure sensitive unit are in contact with each other is located inside a circumference of the central area. A thickness of the central area is larger than a thickness of an area surrounding the central area.
US07779699B2
There is disclosed an apparatus for measuring multiple pressures within different pressure ranges. The apparatus contains multiple pressure sensors which are positioned on a housing, where each pressure sensor is adapted to measure pressure within a different pressure range. The housing has an input port which is constructed to communicate with different output ports, where the output ports communicate with each different pressure sensor utilized in a different pressure range. The input port has a stepped or keyed aperture which is adapted to receive different pressure adapters. The input port enables the selective insertion of various pressure adapter members as indicated where each pressure adapter member can only be inserted within the input port to a desired position, where at that position, the pressure applied to the input port will be directed to the proper pressure sensor.
US07779696B2
A capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers (cMUT) system has two cMUTs connected to each other. The first cMUT is adapted for operation in a transmission mode, and the second cMUT is adapted for operation in the reception mode. The first cMUT and the second cMUT share a common signal line and are connected in a manner to allow the first cMUT and the second cMUT to have bias voltages that can be independently set. In one embodiment, one of the cMUTs is connected to a voltage controller to regulator the voltage applied there on. Various connection configurations, including connections in series and connections in parallel, are disclosed. The cMUT system configurations allow separate optimization for transmission and reception and better flexibility in operation.
US07779693B2
A method for nondestructive testing of the pipes for detecting surface flaws is disclosed. With of the method, flaws can be detected and analyzed in near-real-time while the pipe is produced. The data obtained by ultrasound sensors are digitized in a time window following a trigger pulse, and the digitized data are processed in a digital processor, for example a DSP, using wavelet transforms. The evaluated quantity is compared with a reference value, wherein a determined flaw-based signal can be uniquely associated with the flaw located on the pipe surface.
US07779692B2
The invention is directed toward a new method for estimating and imaging the spatial and temporal mechanical behavior of materials in responses to a mechanical stimulus. This method is designed to work in inherently noisy applications, such as the imaging of the time-dependent mechanical behavior of biological tissues in vivo and using a preferred hand-held configuration of scanning.
US07779670B2
The present invention is an improvement to two-dimensional comprehensive gas chromatography. The improvement is a two-valve switching modulator connecting two gas chromatography separation columns. The modulator is located between the first and second columns and includes two valves with transfer lines between the valves for switching a carrier gas between the transfer lines.
US07779669B2
A gas sensor diagnostic method includes the steps of counting the reversal number of times that a target air-fuel ratio for an air-fuel mixture to be supplied to an internal combustion engine reverses from a rich side to a lean side or from the lean side to the rich side through a specific air-fuel ratio defined as a boundary of the rich and lean sides; obtaining a detection signal of a gas sensor at constant time intervals during a diagnosis period between a timing when the count for the reversal number is started and a timing when the reversal number reaches a predetermined number; calculating a moderated signal by applying a moderation calculation using a predetermined moderation coefficient to the obtained detection signal; calculating a deviation between the obtained detection signal and the calculated moderated signal; and determining whether the gas sensor is in an abnormal state or not on the basis of the deviation.
US07779667B2
The inventive device (53) comprises an enclosure (63), means (65) for supplying the drilling mud into the enclosure (63), and means (67) for discharging the drilling mud from the enclosure (63). The device also comprises means (69) for introducing a carrier gas into the enclosure (63) and a pipe (71), which serves to extract the gas discharging into the enclosure (63) and which is connected to suction means (109). The device (53) additionally comprises selective venting means (72) comprising a vent pipe (115) perforated over the extracting pipe (71) and means (117) for closing the vent pipe (115). These means (117) are designed for opening the vent pipe (115) when the pressure at at least one point (121) of the device is less than a predetermined set value. The invention is used for analyzing the gaseous content of muds from drilling oil wells.
US07779663B1
A finished product receiving rack used in a corrugated metal sheet member fabrication system for receiving finished products in which two guardrails with protective members are arranged in parallel along the length of the rack body to guide delivering finished products in course and to prevent accidental injury to workers, and steering gears and guide screws are arranged on the rack body and rotatable by motors to move the guardrails and to further adjust the gap between the guardrails subject to the size of the finished products to be carried.
US07779662B2
The invention relates to an extruder and pipe extruder (1), comprising a press frame (3) consisting of a cylinder bar and a counter bar (2) connected thereto, wherein a linear displaceable receiver carriage (5) is arranged, said carriage consisting of a receiver holder (6) which concentrically encompasses a block receiving element (7) and transports a block, which is charged with a charging device and which is to be pressed in a press position in front of a die associated with the counter bar (2), wherein the receiver holder (6) is maintained therein in a self-supporting manner in relation to the receiver carriage by means of air (2). The receiver holder (6) is provided with carrier webs (13) which are arranged on two sides in the middle of the press (12) and which project in a diametrically outward manner, being suspended in the recesses (14) of retaining blocks (15) of the receiver carriage (5).
US07779656B2
In a method of knitting a garment having a defined axis (A), the knitting layers are formed in a direction parallel to the axis. Pathways (8) defined by distinctive yarns extending substantially parallel to the axis are incorporated in the knitting process seriatim, each distinctive yarn being knitted into its respective pathway using the same yarn feeder. The distinctive yarns are normally conductive, to provide connections to sensors (6) located on the garment, and such sensors may themselves be an integral part of the garment fabric.
US07779652B2
The invention starts from a known method for producing a glass body, comprising forming a cylindrical blank by successive deposition of a plurality of material layers on the outer surface of a substrate body which is rotating about its longitudinal axis, by using an arrangement of a plurality of depositors which are directed onto the substrate body and which are fed via supply lines with process media for material layer deposition and which are moved without a reversing movement relative to the longitudinal axis of the substrate body. Starting therefrom, to provide a method for producing a glass body of high homogeneity that can be realized in a constructionally simple way, the invention suggests that the movement of the depositor arrangement along the longitudinal axis of the substrate body should be accompanied by a displacement of the substrate body. An apparatus suited for performing the method is distinguished by a displacement device for a displacement of the soot body which is accompanied by the movement of the depositor arrangement along the longitudinal axis of the substrate body.
US07779649B2
A blow head mechanism for an I.S. machine wherein the blow head has a final blow tube. The final blow tube is supported for vertical displacement between an up position where the open end of the final blow tube is proximate the top of a blown parison and a down position where the open end of the final blow tube is proximate the bottom of a blown parison. The final blow tube is oscillated a plurality of times during the time when the blow head is “on”.
US07779637B2
A heat shield is provided on a supporting structure with a number of heat shield elements, which are fixed to a large area of the supporting structure leaving gaps between adjacent heat shield elements, a number of securing elements with which the heat shield elements are fixed to the supporting structure and which have a grip section engaging in the heat shield elements and a cooling system for cooling the securing elements, the cooling system being designed such that cooling fluid can be supplied directly to the grip sections of the securing elements.
US07779633B2
The present application relates to a method for determining the exhaust back pressure p3 upstream of a turbine, which is arranged in the exhaust line of an internal combustion engine equipped with an engine management system (1), which exhaust line is intended to lead off the exhaust gas from a number cylinders of the internal combustion engine. The method includes determining the exhaust back pressure p3 upstream of a turbine, by means of which the exhaust back pressure p3 can still be determined precisely but at little cost compared to methods known in the state of the art.
US07779627B1
A variable-displacement piston-cylinder device may be adapted for providing work output, and/or for pumping or compressing fluids. The piston-cylinder device defines two or more coaxial cylindrical expansion chambers between a piston having two or more coaxial and conjoined piston members, and a correspondingly-shaped cylinder. Substantially any combination of the expansion chambers may be activated or deactivated in order to vary the effective displacement of the piston-cylinder device. The effective displacement of each piston-cylinder may be changed in mid-operation in order to reduce power output and fuel consumption (or pumping or compressing capacity), without introducing vibration. In addition, a control system is provided for managing the effective displacement of each piston-cylinder according to output required, desirable operating parameters, and other parameters that can effect the operation of the device.
US07779622B2
In an engine (10) comprising a fuel injector (12) which performs a post injection after performing a main injection into a cylinder and an exhaust valve (15) which opens and closes to discharge an exhaust gas, a controller (70) controls the fuel injector (12) to start the post injection during a period where a gas velocity in the cylinder along a cylinder axis increases after the exhaust valve (15) opens. A duration (t) of the post injection is controlled according to a crank angle at which the post injection is to be performed such that a breakup distance (L) at the end of which the injected fuel atomizes does not become larger than a distance (S) from an injection hole (12a) to a cylinder liner (10c), thereby ensuring that the injected fuel is supplied to an exhaust passage (23) without adhering to the cylinder liner (10c).
US07779612B2
A process for forming a pouch having an evacuated headspace containing a flowable material is disclosed. The process includes the steps of: providing a continuous tube of flexible and sealable film; supplying the continuous tube with a predetermined amount of flowable material; pinching the continuous tube above a sealing region so as to form a pinched portion of the continuous tube; evacuating the headspace between the pinched portion and the predetermined amount of flowable material; and sealing the continuous tube at the sealing region to form a top seal of a previously formed pouch containing flowable material and a bottom seal of a next-to-be filled pouch. Also disclosed is a vertical form-fill-seal apparatus for forming a pouch containing a flowable material and having an evacuated headspace.
US07779610B2
Vacuum packed absorbent articles including diapers, kits thereof, and retail packages including vacuum packed and non vacuum packed absorbent articles are disclosed.
US07779596B2
The invention relates to a locking system for mechanical joining of floorboards (1, 1′) which have a body (30), a lower balancing layer (34) and an upper surface layer (32). A strip (6) is integrally formed with the body (30) of the floorboard (1) and extends under an adjoining floorboard (1′). The strip (6) has a locking element (8), which engages a looking groove (14) in the underside of the adjoining floorboard (1′) and forms a horizontal joint. A tongue (38) and a tongue groove (36) form a vertical joint between upper and lower plane-parallel contact surfaces (43, 45) and are designed in such manner that the lower contact surfaces (45) are on a level between the upper side of the locking element (8) and a plane containing the underside (3) of the floorboard. The invention also relates to a floorboard having such a locking system, a floor made of such floorboards, as well as a method for making such a locking system.
US07779588B1
A concrete foundation is described which is adapted to be embedded in the ground for supporting a pole thereon. The foundation is comprised of a vertically disposed central section having upper and lower ends with a base section embracing the lower end of the central section and being wedged thereagainst to anchor the central section in the ground. If additional weight is needed, one or more base sections may be stacked on top of the lowermost base section.
US07779584B2
A curtain wall system having a framing of mullions and transoms. The mullions have a mullion body portion and a mullion nose portion and spaced notches in the mullion body portion. The penetrating transom have a transom body portion and a transom nose portion. The transom nose portion has extensions extending beyond opposed ends of the transom body portion received in the notches of the mullion body portions whereby the framing portion is formed for sealing receiving a panel to form an air barrier, with a gap being defined between the extensions of the transoms and the mullion nose portions. Pressure plates are connected to the mullions and transoms to form a sash with the framing portion so as to secure the panels within the sash. A seal member blocks each gap to form a pressurized cavity with the sash about the glass panel.
US07779581B2
A replaceable, wet-set tactile warning surface unit having a body defining an upper surface and a lower surface, the body defining a series of raised projections on its upper surface, and defining a plurality of spaced through-holes from the top to the bottom surface, in which the raised projections are spaced from one another and the through-holes are located between projections. An anchor member such as a threaded insert is coupled to the bottom surface of the unit member directly below each of the through-holes by fasteners such as bolts that pass through the through-holes.
US07779577B2
In an operator window including a perimeter frame supporting a sash therein for movement between respective open and closed positions, a plurality of reinforcement members are mounted within the sash to provide reinforcement to a latching mechanism secured thereto. When the latching mechanism comprises a plurality of separate latching points at spaced positions along a latching side of the sash, a separate reinforcement member is associated with each of the latching points which is independent and maintained in separation from the remaining reinforcement members by spacers mounted therebetween. The spacers ensure sufficient space between the reinforcement members to accommodate for differences in thermal expansion and contraction between the different materials of the reinforcement members and the sash.
US07779566B2
A wire marker that can be removably attached to a wire, such as an aerial or fence wire. The marker can have a base and an integral deformable arm having a first and second distal tip. The tips can have catches on the same side and a catch on the opposite side oriented between the catches and offset along a longitudinal axis between the catches. The offset can be distal or proximal to the base on the longitudinal axis between the catches, and the offset can be configured to accommodate a diameter of a fence wire. The marker base can be substantially triangular in shape and made of injection molded plastic and colored to make it visible relative to its surroundings, such as international orange.
US07779565B2
An ironing appliance (1) comprises an ironing device such as a steam iron and an ironing board (11) for supporting articles (2) to be ironed. In the ironing board (11), Radio Frequency Identification readers (41) are arranged, which serve for identifying the fabric type of the articles (2) to be ironed, which are provided with a tag (45) containing this information. The ironing board (11) has a heater (16) for heating the articles to be ironed, and is also adapted to supplying steam to these articles. In an ironing process of a given article, the characteristics of the supply of steam and the temperature of the heater (16) are determined on the basis of the information obtained from the tag (45) of the article by the readers (41). Due to the fact that the readers (41) are arranged in the ironing board (11), the identification process and the process of determining appropriate ironing settings take place in a fast and accurate manner.
US07779562B1
A universal mount bracket that provides two pairs of adapter plates, one pair for each side of the front end loader. Each adapter plate can be adjusted laterally to match the width of virtually any size loader arm produced, and then be adjusted to the overall width of the loader (distance between the left and right loader arms). Once each pair of adapter plates have been matched to the loader arms (left and right), the equipment implement must then be centered and secured in place to prevent any lateral displacement of the unit while the implement is in use.
US07779558B2
A shock absorbing device for a shoe sole according to the present invention comprises: an outer sole 2; a midsole M that is disposed above the outer sole 2; and a deformation element 3 disposed between the outer sole 2 and the midsole M. The deformation element 3 is joined to the bottom surface of the midsole M and is joined to the upper surface of the outer sole 2. The deformation element has a tubular part 30 in a flat tubular form, and Young's modulus of a material constituting the tubular part 30 is greater than both that of a material constituting the midsole M and that of a material constituting the outer sole 2. The tubular part has a lower portion that is curved so as to be convex downwards and thereby undergoes bending deformation due to a shock at landing.
US07779557B2
A shoe having a toe region, a middle region, a heel region, and a multi-layer, multi-density midsole wherein an upper layer of the midsole has a bottom surface that has a longitudinal convexity and a longitudinal concavity, the longitudinal convexity typically occupying a substantial portion of the toe region or a substantial portion of the toe region and middle region, and the longitudinal concavity typically occupying a substantial portion of the heel region, the longitudinal convexity and the longitudinal concavity collectively contributing to simulating the effect, and imparting the fitness benefits, of walking on a sandy beach or on a giving or uneven surface regardless of the actual hardness of the surface.
US07779556B2
Exemplary mobile drying containers and related methods are provided. In one embodiment, the mobile drying container includes a first side wall, a second side wall, a first end wall, a second end wall having a gate, an interior bottom, an upper volume and a lower volume separated by a ventilated floor supported by support members, wheels positioned below the lower volume, and one or more support legs positioned below the lower volume to provide support between the mobile drying container and the ground. The upper volume holds the crop to be dried, and the gate of the second end wall is operable to open and provide a path to dump or remove the crop. The lower volume is operable to receive a flow of air from an opening to assist with the drying of the crop. The present invention also encompasses other embodiments and methods.
US07779552B1
A measuring apparatus includes a workbench including a fixing board, four trigger units, a sliding member, a positioning unit for fixing an article, an electrical controlling cage, and an indicating member electrically connected to the trigger units. The sliding member includes a receiving body defining a guiding hole, and distal ends of the trigger units are received in the guiding hole. The fixing board, the indicating member and the trigger units are electrically connected to the electrical controlling cage. The electrical controlling cage is turned on, and the article is passed through the guiding hole. If any trigger unit cannot be triggered to turn on the corresponding indicating member, the portion to be measured of the article is qualified; if any trigger unit is triggered to turn on the corresponding indicating member, the portion to be measured on the article is disqualified.
US07779551B2
A testing apparatus for testing perpendicularity of an end surface of a workpiece is disclosed. The testing apparatus includes an electrically conductive first reference piece defining two guide holes, and two testing units. The testing units are slidably engaged in the guide holes, so as to form two testing circuits. At a normal state, each testing circuit is closed, and each testing unit extends out of the guide hole for a distance, wherein the distance corresponds to an allowable perpendicularity tolerance. Each testing unit can be pushed to retract back to the guide holes by the end of the workpiece to cause the testing circuit to be opened. The opened state or closed state of each of the testing circuits will help show the status of the perpendicularity of the end surface of the workpiece.
US07779550B2
A measuring system (100) for flatness degree measurement includes a measuring instrument (10) and a processing device (20). The measuring instrument has a base (12), a guide column (14), a sliding member (16), a digital micrometer (18) and a holding member (19). The guide column is vertically attached to the base. The sliding member is moveably attached to the guide column. The digital micrometer is firmly fastened to the sliding member. The holding member is configured for fixing a workpiece (40) and has a reference-standard surface formed thereon. The processing device electronically connects with the digital micrometer. The processing device receives a plurality of measured values from the digital micrometer and displays a testing result after processing the measured values.
US07779548B2
A portable coordinate measuring machine (PCMM) can have one or more rotatable grip assemblies to provide a locations for an operator to grasp the PCMM. A rotatable grip assembly can include a rotatable sleeve, a grip portion disposed over the sleeve, and one or more retaining rings to prevent the rotatable grip from axially sliding along one or more members of an articulated arm PCMM. A PCMM can include two rotatable grips to allow an operator to grasp the PCMM with both hands for positioning and repositioning operations. One rotatable grip can be positioned on an arm member most distant the PCMM base, and another rotatable grip can be positioned on a housing at least partially encasing an articulating joint assembly coupled to the arm member most distant the PCMM base. Other numbers of and locations of rotatable grip assemblies can be used in PCMMs.
US07779546B2
A string line tool having a string line reel and a uniquely shaped string line block integral with the string line reel. The string line tool is especially adapted to work on various construction tasks or jobs that require the use of a pair of pegs or rods stuck in the ground and spaced from each other at a predetermined distance. The uniquely shaped string line block has a semi-cylindrical inner surface and the string line reel has a string with a metal ring attached to a free end of the string. A main advantage in using this string line tool is that it is self supporting.
US07779544B2
The invention relates to a method and a device for adjusting the steering wheel of a motor vehicle. The aim of the invention is to enable an automatic adjustment of the steering wheel in the steering clearance center by ‘stabilizing’ or carrying out a steering hysteresis measurement, and the subsequent adjustment of the steering wheel, in a simple, rapid and cost-effective manner. To this end, the invention relates to a method for adjusting the steering wheel of a motor vehicle in the steering wheel clearance center, the method being characterized by the following steps: the floating plates of the vehicle geometry test bed, on which the front wheels of the motor vehicle are arranged, are rotated when the wheels are stopped in order to cause the rotation of steering wheel; the steering wheel angle is determined according to the triggered steering wheel movement; and the steering wheel clearance center is adjusted. The invention shows that reproducible rotations of the steering wheel can be triggered by the floating plates of the vehicle geometry test bed, enabling an automatic adjustment of the steering wheel in the steering wheel clearance center to be carried out rapidly and easily.
US07779540B2
A quadrail ergonomic apparatus includes two or more pathways designed to permit movement in two or more directions mounted to a static object above a surface. One or more carriages designed to move in two or more directions are disposed within the pathways. Each carriage is suspended above the surface from the pathways and capable of maintaining a workload in place and permitting movement of the workload in at least four directions.
US07779532B2
A manufacturing method of a hybrid permanent magnet type electric rotating machine including a stator that is constructed by winding excitation coils around respective main poles. A rotor is constructed by fixing a first rotor unit, which consists of a pair of rotor cores and a magnetic material sandwiched between the rotor cores, and a second rotor unit, which has the same construction as the first rotor unit, to a rotation shaft. The rotor is assembled to the stator to form an assembled body. The magnet material of the first rotor unit is magnetized in the axial direction by a magnetizing flux passing through a half of the assembled body in the axial direction. The magnet material of the second rotor unit is magnetized in the axial direction in an opposite polarity by a magnetizing flux passing through the remaining half of the assembled body in the axial direction.
US07779531B2
The present invention provides a microfabricated ultrasonic transducer with curvature. The curvature is made possible by thinning the substrate such that it is flexible enough to be mounted on an assembly with the desired curvature. In one aspect of the invention, the substrate can contain electronic circuits. In another aspect, the assembly mounting can incorporate curved damping materials that serve to remove undesirable substrate modes.
US07779526B2
A method for producing a collecting line, and a collecting line produced according to the method is provided for detecting and locating an agent discharging into the environment of the collecting line in case of leakage. Such a collecting line has a carrier pipe, the wall of which is equipped with openings that are sealed by an elastic material that is permeable for the agent. Accordingly, a hose made of the permeable elastic material, the inside diameter of which is smaller than the outside diameter of the carrier pipe, is elastically expanded by creating a pressure difference between the interior and the exterior of the hose. The carrier pipe is inserted into the radially expanded hose, and the radially expanded hose is attached to the outside surface of the carrier pipe by reducing the pressure difference.
US07779517B1
A decorative clasp closes by magnetic action, and can be worn on the front, i.e. at the throat or beneath the throat. The clasp allows the loop size of the jewelry article to be adjusted to suit the wearer's preferences. A pair of arcuate arms are joined at a pivot member, and close magnetically to form a generally oval shape.
US07779514B2
An apparatus for cleaning foreign matter from separated tufts of fiber uses a revolving open reel type structure mounted within a porous housing to separate a conveying air stream from tufts of fiber conveyed thereby and deliver the tufts to a toothed cleaning cylinder which passes beneath a plurality of cleaning bars. The open reel utilizes brush like outer surfaces to sweep tufts of fiber from the housing back into the air stream adjacent the cleaning cylinder.
US07779511B2
A hinge assembly is used in a notebook computer and has a rotating bracket, cover panel, stationary bracket, limiting assembly and indicator ring. The notebook computer has a display and a base. The display is rotatably mounted pivotally upon the base. The rotating bracket is attached to the display and has a keyed shaft. The cover panel is mounted around the rotating bracket, is attached to a top surface of the base and has a gap. The stationary bracket is mounted rotatably around the keyed shaft and is mounted securely on the base. The limiting assembly is mounted on the stationary bracket and allows the keyed shaft to rotate 360°. The indicator ring is mounted on the limiting assembly and has two indicators. The indicators show up in the gap when the display is rotated to a rotational limitation to indicate direction of allowed rotation.
US07779502B2
The cleaning item of the present invention comprises: a brush part constructed from fibrous material; an inserted part with an inserted space into which a gripper is detachably inserted and which is formed by a pair of sheets, the inserted part being disposed in the brush part; and a joining member which joins the brush part and the inserted part.
US07779501B2
A mop for cleaning a surface is provided. The mop includes a base and a scrubbing area connected to the base by a living hinge so that the scrubbing area can be deflected towards the surface upon application of a scrubbing force.
US07779500B1
A construction worker may adapt a reciprocating handheld power saw to multiple additional applications including brushing, scraping, sanding, and polishing. A simple adapter is attached to the power tool in place of a saw blade. Multiple attachments for the various applications are easily press-fit onto the adapter.
US07779499B2
A method for assembly of a stay includes a series of steps that include connecting in the vicinity of an anchoring zone, a new group of N reinforcements to a shuttle located within the sheath of a stay to be installed. The shuttle is driven towards another anchoring zone by means of driving and guiding means. When the shuttle has arrived substantially in the vicinity of the anchoring zone, and as long as entangling is detected between the driving and guiding means in a portion contained substantially between the shuttle and the first anchoring zone, the shuttle is rotated about its main axis in the opposite direction to the said entangling. The group of N reinforcements is then separated from the shuttle. Each reinforcement of the group is tensioned between the anchoring zones. The preceding steps are repeated until the installation of the reinforcements is completed.
US07779496B2
A bed comprises a bed frame and a bed deck supported by the bed frame. The bed deck comprises a step deck, including a lower deck, an upper deck, a side wall connecting the lower deck to the upper deck, and a recess defined by the lower deck and the side wall. The side wall at least partially surrounds the recess. A mattress comprises a safety mattress extending across the lower bed deck and having air cells including air cells resting on the upper bed deck.
US07779488B2
Swimming goggles includes lens units each made of transparent hard material, lens frame units each made of hard material and gasket units each made of soft and elastic material. Each of the gasket units is formed along an outer peripheral surface thereof with a convex rib.
US07779484B2
Rescue harness devices are designed for incorporation into protective coats of firefighter or other types of first responders such that when deployed, the rescue harness forms a closed loop that cinches around an upper torso region under the armpits of an individual donning the protective coat, to thereby positively secure the individual and pull directly on the individual's body.
US07784106B2
A method of manufacturing devices that generate digital signatures such that each device may be reliably and uniquely identified includes creating a public-private key pair within each device during manufacture; exporting only the public key from the device; retaining the private key within the device against the possibility of divulgement thereof by the device; and securely linking said exported public key with other information within the environment of the manufacture of the device, whereby each device is securely bound with its respective public key. A database of PuK-linked account information of users is maintained. The PuK-linked account information for each user includes a public key of such a device; information securely linked with the public key during manufacture; and third-party account identifiers, each of which identifies an account to a third-party of the user maintained with the third-party that has been associated with the user's public key by the third-party.
US07784099B2
The present invention provides a system and method for predicting and preventing unauthorized intrusion in a computer configuration. Preferably, the invention comprises a communication network to which at least two computing devices connect, wherein at least one of the computing devices is operable to receive data transmitted by the other computing device. The invention further comprises a database that is accessible over the network and operable to store information related to the network. A vulnerability assessment component is provided that is operable to execute a command over the communication network, and a data monitoring utility operates to monitor data transmitted over the communication network as the vulnerability assessment component executes commands. Also, an intrusion detection component is included that is operable to provide a simulated copy of the network, to generate a first data transmission on the simulated copy of the network that represents a second data transmission on the communication network, and to compare the first data transmission with a second data transmission. The vulnerability assessment component preferably interfaces with the intrusion detection component to define rules associated with the first and second data transmissions, to store the rules in the database, and to retrieve the rules from the database in order to predict and prevent unauthorized intrusion in the computer configuration.
US07784098B1
A computer system operation registers as an event when an operation potentially characteristic of malware occurs. Events are scored and when a threshold is reached indicative of a possible malware infection a restore point is created. Many restore points are created. When a user decides to restore the system because of the presence of malware a malware report is retrieved. The malware report describes characteristics of a particular piece of malware. The malware report is compared to the restore point logs that had been created earlier. Any number of malware reports are compared to the restore point logs. A restore point log that shares many of the same system changes or other effects also present in a malware report is likely to be an indication of the beginning of a malware infection. The matched restore point log is recommended to the user as the best restore point.
US07784093B2
A gateway for screening packets transferred over a network. The gateway includes a plurality of network interfaces, a memory and a memory controller. Each network interface receives and forwards messages from a network through the gateway. The memory temporarily stores packets received from a network. The memory controller couples each of the network interfaces and is configured to coordinate the transfer of received packets to and from the memory using a memory bus. The gateway includes a firewall engine coupled to the memory bus. The firewall engine is operable to retrieve packets from the memory and screen each packet prior to forwarding a given packet through the gateway and out an appropriate network interface. A local bus is coupled between the firewall engine and the memory providing a second path for retrieving packets from memory when the memory bus is busy.
US07784085B2
A system for identifying a principal consisting of a service provider in a first circle of trust, where the first circle of trust is implemented using a first architecture; a first identity provider operatively connected to the service provider in the first circle of trust; and a second identity provider in a second circle of trust, where the second circle of trust is implemented using a second architecture, where the first identity provider is configured to contact the second identity provider, in compliance with the second architecture, as a virtual service provider in the second circle of trust to obtain identity information associated with the principal thereby allowing the first identity provider to identify the principal in the first circle of trust.
US07784079B1
A method of and apparatus for efficiently providing video on demand services to a cable television subscriber. The provider system consists of two major subsystems. The first subsystem, called a video server, streams video to video on demand subscribers through the cable television network. The second subsystem, called the transaction server, performs virtually all remaining provider functions including, security, accounting, storage and spooling of video data, etc. The transaction server preferably uses a large scale mainframe computer. The video server subsystem may be a partitioned portion of same large scale mainframe computer.
US07784073B2
An information storage medium includes video data and a markup document to play back the video data in an interactive mode. The markup document includes device-aspect-ratio information which is referred to for displaying of the markup document.
US07784072B2
An apparatus such as a television signal receiver, radio or other device provides an emergency alert function. According to an exemplary embodiment, the apparatus includes a tuner for tuning a channel frequency that provides emergency alert signals indicating an emergency event. A processor enables an alert output responsive to the emergency alert signals. A single user input button receives tactile user inputs to control the emergency alert function. The single user input button is the only tactile user input means integral with the apparatus that is capable of controlling the emergency alert function.
US07784069B2
Divergent storylines for media such as movies are selected using branching techniques. Enhancing the “replay value” of a movie may be accomplished by introducing many logical branches in the action and plot during the movie. Consequently, repeat viewing is encouraged by creating a dynamic viewing environment based on the preferences of the current audience. The audience may be polled prior to each logical branch. Votes are then tallied and the logical branch is selected. Viewers may also indicate preferences regarding the movie rating. Consequently, a movie may be rated for children at one viewing and adults at another. Votes or other viewer feedback may be collected by a variety of methods. The privilege of voting for particular storyline branches or other content choices may be provided for free or purchase. Each time a branch in the storyline appears the viewer may then vote to influence the direction taken by the storyline. Multiple opportunities for voting may appear during the movie. Votes may be weighted and purchased based on a variable or flexible cost structure. Purchase of a movie ticket may convey to the viewer the ability to not only view the movie but also influence the outcome of the movie. The ability to influence the outcome of the movie may be closely related to the price of the ticket.
US07784063B2
In various embodiments of the present invention, execution-state transitions occur in a first portion of a system, and a cumulative execution state for each process is maintained by a second portion of the system so that, when a second-portion routine is called, the second-portion routine can determine whether or not the current execution state is suitable for execution of the second-portion routine. In various embodiments, a callpoint log, allocated and maintained for each process, stores the cumulative execution state for the process. In one embodiment, the first portion is an operating system, and the second portion is a secure kernel, with the cumulative execution state used by the secure kernel to prevent unauthorized access by erroneously or maliciously invoked operating-system routines to secure kernel routines. In another embodiment, the cumulative execution state is used as a debugging tool by the second-portion routines to catch errors in the implementation of the first-portion routines.
US07784058B2
A computing system and architecture is provided that affects and extends services exported through application libraries. The system has an operating system having an operating system kernel having OS critical system elements (OSCSEs) for running in kernel mode; and, a shared library having critical system elements (SLCSEs) stored within the shared library for use by the software applications in user mode. The SLCSEs stored in the shared library are accessible to the software applications and when accessed by a software application forms a part of the software application. When an instance of an SLCSE provided to an application from the shared library it is ran in a context of the software application without being shared with other software applications. The other applications running under the operating system each have use of a unique instance of a corresponding critical system element for performing essentially the same function, and can be run simultaneously.
US07784053B2
A technique for utilizing resources in a virtual machine operating system. The virtual machine operating system comprises a multiplicity of virtual machines. A share of resources is allocated to each of the virtual machines. Utilization by one of the virtual machines of the resources allocated to the one virtual machine is automatically monitored. If the one virtual machine needs additional resources, the one virtual machine is automatically cloned. The clone is allocated a share of the resources taken from the shares of other of the virtual machines, such that the resultant shares allocated to the one virtual machine and the clone together are greater than the share allocated to the one virtual machine before the one virtual machine was cloned. The clone performs work with its resources that would have been performed by the one virtual machine if not for the existence of said clone.
US07784044B2
A system and method for automatically updating software components on a running computer system without requiring any interruption of service. A software module is hotpatched by loading a patch into memory and modifying an instruction in the original module to jump to the patch. A coldpatching technique places a coldpatch version of the module on disk for subsequent loading by processes, after hotpatching occurred. The coldpatch has the entry points to its functions at the same relative locations within the module as the hotpatch, which facilitates subsequent hotpatching. A hotpatch and coldpatch are automatically generated by deriving differences between changed and original binary files, and establishing the point to insert the jump. Validation is performed to ensure that the hotpatch is applied to the correct version, and that the coldpatch is replacing the correct version. Version management is also provided to control the number of patches via support rules.
US07784040B2
A method and system for profiling performance behaviour of executed loops. For each invocation of a loop, a count of a measured event is incremented. A display is provided for a loop (209) showing the number of measured events for each of the loop's invocations. The code of a loop is instrumented (204) to obtain the count of loop invocations (207) and the occurrences of the measured event (208).
US07784032B2
According to one embodiment, if a nonvolatile memory which stores format information of an HDD, a CD/DVD, an FDD and a USB storage device, and the USB storage device are connected, the drive letter of the USB storage device is virtually assigned as FDD or HDD on the basis of the format information.
US07784030B2
A method and apparatus for providing a network based operating system for mobile clients is disclosed. Services may be developed that can be used to support different client devices with different capabilities. The services provide output with multiple variations based on different devices, and an intermediary selects the variation best suited for the requesting device. An online software development system is provided to allow services to create, edit, test, and deploy applications at an intermediary using only a browser at the client end. Services may also be provided that can be accessed and referred to by other services, thereby facilitating the combining of different services. Services may also store and access data at an intermediary using variables and a mapping of the stored data to the variables. Data stored at the intermediary may be used to allow an end user to return to a previously accessed service.
US07784029B2
Systems and methods are provided that disclose a network service for modularly constructing a software defined radio (“SDR”). A server system provides an SDR kernel (i.e., a potentially platform-neutral definition of digital signal processing functionality and control operations necessary to implement the core portion of a software defined radio implementing a particular radio standard) to a client system. The client system may select a desired SDR kernel through a variety of means disclosed herein. While some SDR kernels may be provided for free and unrestricted use, others may be purchased or subscribed to and additionally restricted by digital rights management (“DRM”) policies. Based upon the agreed upon payment terms and any other restrictions, a customized set of DRM policies may be applied by the server system to the SDR kernel before sending it to a client system. Additionally, the server system may provide a description of governmental regulations applicable to a given locality.
US07784026B1
A system and method is described for internationalization of web pages by extracting translatable content from extensible mark-up language (XML), or similar data-centric meta-language representations of web pages or data used to build web pages. The extracted translatable content is stored in a translation task repository (TTR) accessible by the web developer and the translator. The XML representation is then modified to include selection control logic to select the appropriate translations for insertion into the final web page. The translator accesses the TTR to translate the appropriate content and saves the translations back to the TTR associated with the original translatable data. The translations are obtained from the TTR as selection cases for the selection control logic of the XML representation. As the XML is converted into the web source code, the selection logic and translations are embedded therein facilitating building the web site in multiple different languages.
US07784023B2
An accepting unit (110) accepts various parameters required to create a program from a setting apparatus (500) through a network. A producing unit (112) loads a model of a program code from a model storing unit (128) on the basis of the parameters and replaces a part of the program code with the parameters to produce a source code. An instructing unit (120) detects that the producing unit (112) produces the source code to start a compiling unit (114). The compiling unit (114) compiles the source code produced by the producing unit (112) to create a research program. In this manner, a research program can be automatically created without advanced special knowledge.
US07784009B2
Electrically programmable fuses for an integrated circuit and design structures thereof are presented, wherein the electrically programmable fuse has a first terminal portion and a second terminal portion interconnected by a fuse element. The first terminal portion and the second terminal portion reside over a first support and a second support, respectively, with the first support and the second support being spaced apart, and the fuse element bridging the distance between the first terminal portion over the first support and the second terminal portion over the second support. The fuse, first support and second support define a π-shaped structure in elevational cross-section through the fuse element. The first terminal portion, second terminal portion and fuse element are coplanar, with the fuse element residing above a void. The design structure for the fuse is embodied in a machine-readable medium for designing, manufacturing or testing a design of the fuse.
US07783987B2
In order to provide for efficient security of a remote presentation (such as a remote display) on a client which presents user interface data from a remote server, all requests for action to be performed on the client are examined to determine if they are requests for user interface (UI) presentation. If the request is for UI presentation, it is verified to ensure that the request is valid—e.g., that it comes from an approved source. If the request is a valid UI request, then the request is served. If a UI request cannot be verified, the request is served, if possible, without presenting the user interface data from the request—e.g., by hiding visual data, or playing audio data at zero or minimal volume. Otherwise, the request is not serviced and the connection from the client to the server may be terminated.
US07783983B1
A method and system for displaying a graphical user interface on the display device. Methods include displaying a control area on a graphical user interface, the control area including at least one control field associated with an attribute of a content source, the control field being configured to be viewable via the control area and displaying a content area on the graphical user interface such that the control area and the content area are at least partially superimposed and simultaneously visible on the graphical user interface, the content area displaying content of at least a portion of the content source.
US07783976B2
Thumbnails of pages of a key document are arranged sequentially according to a page order in a row. Thumbnails of pages of a target document are arranged sequentially according to a page order in a row parallel to the row of the key document. A key page of the key document is compared with each page of the target document. When a page of the target document that is most similar to the key page is found, the row of the target document is shifted in a horizontal direction so that the page of the target document that is most similar to the key page is positioned next to the key page.
US07783975B2
A content display system for sharing contents between display apparatuses is provided. The content display system for displaying content, includes a first local interface module connected to a storage device storing the content, a first device interface module receiving a message requesting for the content stored in the storage device, a first display apparatus including a first device agent module extracting the requested content from the storage device through the first local interface module and transmitting the extracted content through the first device interface module, a second device agent module generating the message, a second device interface module transmitting the generated message to the first display apparatus and receiving the extracted content, a content processing module converting the received content into content having an output format suitable for display, and a second display apparatus including a display module outputting the converted content.
US07783971B2
A common visual appearance can be applied to documents authored by different kinds of applications. Thus, a suite of applications can have a theme that can be applied to differing kinds of documents produced by the different kinds of applications in the suite of applications. The theme information can be stored externally to the produced documents as well as internally to the produced documents. The theme can include visual attributes of the documents as well as content, such as text or other information.
US07783962B2
The present invention relates to an iterative decoding receiver for reducing complexity of a partial sphere decoding operation in a spatial multiplexing system, and a method thereof. In the present invention, an iterative detection and decoding (IDD) method using a cost function-based iterative partial sphere decoding method and a soft cancellation-based iterative partial sphere decoding method is used to correct an initial estimation error. In a channel encoding spatial multiplexing system, since the iterative decoding receiver using decoding algorithms including a BCJR algorithm, an MPA, and a VA performs an SISO sphere decoding operation providing an optimum detection solution, the iterative decoding receiver may detect transmission symbols at a whole dimension by detecting the transmission symbols at a partial dimension, and therefore the complexity of the SISO sphere decoding operation may be greatly reduced.
US07783961B2
A new rate compatible coding approach is disclosed herein which takes advantage of the structure of irregular repeat accumulate (IRA) type codes, a special class of low density parity check codes.
US07783960B2
A DTV transmitter includes a pre-processor pre-processing enhanced data, a data formatter generating enhanced data packets including the pre-processed data and inserting known data place holders to the data packets, and a multiplexer multiplexing the enhanced data packets with main data packets. It further includes an RS encoder which RS-codes the multiplexed data packets, and a data interleaver which interleaves the RS-coded data packets. The RS encoder adds systematic RS parity data to each main data packet and adds non-systematic RS parity place holders to each enhanced data packet. The RS encoder adds the RS parity place holders such that the RS parity place holders are placed after the enhanced data within each interleaved enhanced data packet.
US07783958B1
Multiple channels of received data are processed by a multiple channel demodulation and error correction decoding engine. The statistical uncertainty of processing channels with an iterative decoder are averaged across all the channels to reduce the total processing power required of the decoding engine compared to processing each channel with a separate engine. A set of input buffers holds blocks of data for each channel needing decoding. A quality measure is computed on each input block to set the priority and iteration allocation of decoding in the common decoder. The input RF signal is digitized by a broadband tuner that processes some or all of the channels to feed the multiple channel demodulator and decoder. Multiple decoded video data streams are output.
US07783957B2
A method and apparatus are provided for implementing enhanced vertical ECC storage in a dynamic random access memory. A dynamic random access memory (DRAM) is split into a plurality of groups. Each group resides inside a DRAM row address strobe (RAS) page so that multiple locations inside a group can be accessed without incurring an additional RAS access penalty. Each group is logically split into a plurality of segments for storing data with at least one segment for storing ECC for the data segments. For a write operation, data are written in a data segment and then ECC for the data are written in an ECC segment. For a read operation, ECC are read from an ECC segment, then data are read from the data segment.
US07783953B2
A wideband code division multiple access (W-CDMA) user equipment (UE) operating in frequency division duplex mode for receiving data over at least one of a plurality of high speed (HS) shared control channels (SCCHs) is disclosed. The UE includes means for monitoring the plurality of HS-SCCHs; means for receiving a packet over at least one of the plurality of HS-SCCHs; and means for determining whether a UE identification is present in the packet and whether a circular redundancy code (CRC) of the packet is correct by processing a mask field. The mask field has an N-bit CRC modulo 2 combined with an N-bit UE identification.
US07783952B2
A method and apparatus for decoding data is provided herein to show how to turbo decode LDPC codes that contain a partial dual diagonal parity-check portion, and how to avoid memory access contentions in such a turbo decoder. During operation, a decoder will receive a signal vector corresponding to information bits and parity bits and separate the received signal vector into two groups, a first group comprising signals corresponding to the information bits and one or more parity bits, a second group comprising a remainder of the parity bits. The first group of received signals is passed to a first decoder and the second group of received signals is passed to a second decoder. The decoders are separated by an interleaver and a deinterleaver. Iterative decoding takes place by passing messages between the decoders, through the interleaver and the deinterleaver, and producing an estimate of the information bits from the output of the first decoder.
US07783946B2
A method and circuit for capturing and observing the internal state of an integrated circuit that utilizes a scan chain capable of capturing the functional state of an integrated circuit during functional testing without interrupting the functional testing. The functional state may be captured by and shifted out of the scan chain concurrently with functional testing. The scan chain includes sequential elements, each having a functional state and a scan state that operate in parallel. The method and circuit may further include a signature analyzer for compressing the contents of the scan chain into a signature. The method and circuit may capture and compress multiple functional states into a combined signature.
US07783943B2
A method and apparatus for testing a random access memory device is provided. One embodiment involves providing an interface between Logic Built in Self Test (LBIST) and Array Built in Self Test (ABIST) paths for memory testing, including providing a cross-coupled NAND device with an LBIST test path; configuring the cross-coupled NAND device for interfacing ABIST and LBIST paths by modeling a worst case scenario for timing from a domino read static random access memory (SRAM) array; and modifying data in the cross-coupled NAND device using an LBIST controlled data path at essentially the latest point in time when a read may propagate from the array to provide full AC test coverage of down stream logic.
US07783941B2
A memory device includes a main memory cell array and a redundant memory cell array configured to store a first parity code for data stored in the main memory cell array. The device further includes a parity generator configured to generate a second parity code responsive to reading of the stored data from the main memory cell array, and a comparator configured to compare the first and second parity codes. In some embodiments, the parity generator configured to generate the second parity code during a copyback operation.
US07783940B2
A memory redundancy reconfiguration for N base blocks associated with k redundant blocks. The data will be written into both base blocks and defect-free redundant blocks if the base blocks are defective; k multiplexers MUXRi each having N input signals (d0 to dN−1) capable of being connected to k input signals of the redundant blocks; N multiplexers MUXi each having k+1 input signals from k redundant blocks (R0 to Rk−1) and one base block (Ni), capable of being connected to N output signals (qi); and logic means associated with each multiplexer, to convert the input signals of the multiplexer to its output signal.
US07783938B1
Provided is a method and system for diagnosing a test system to determine whether a condition of the test system contributed to an undesirable measurement result. The method includes interrogating a device under test comprising at least one of transmitting an electric signal to energize a device under test by the test system and conducting a passive measurement that does not require the device under test to be energized to be performed to determine if the device under test satisfies a design parameter. The method further includes processing an output signal including at least one of a responsive electric signal transmitted from the device under test in response to being energized and a passive signal corresponding to the passive measurement, and comparing a value of a property of the output signal to a reference value. Responsive to the comparing, the method determines whether the value of the output signal is within an acceptable tolerance of the reference value. A diagnostic routine is initiated on at least a portion of the test system involved in processing of the output signal and comparing the value of the output signal to the reference value when the value of the output signal falls outside of the acceptable tolerance.
US07783934B2
A program failure is detected during programming of a memory device. When the program failure is detected, a transfer of the contents of a register of the memory device to a first location of a memory of the memory device is stopped. First data that remains in the register after the program failure is detected is transferred to a second location of the memory. At the second location of the memory, the first data is combined with second data from the first location of the memory that remains in the first location of the memory after the program failure is detected to reconstruct third data that was originally intended to be programmed in the first location before the program failure was detected.
US07783922B2
Even when a failure incapable of being detected by a single guarantee code occurs in data, a storage controller of the present invention can detect and restore this failure. The controller, upon receiving a write command from a host, establish a first data guarantee code in the write data, and establish a second data guarantee code in the parity related to the write data. Upon receiving a read command from the host, the controller determines the correctness of the data based on the first data guarantee code, and also detects the presence or absence of a failure by comparing the first data guarantee code with the second data guarantee code. When a failure is detected, the controller restores the failure on the basis of RAID technology.
US07783921B2
A system and method for restoring a computing system to a first operating state associated with a first system software code installed on the computing system is provided. The method comprises installing a second system software code on the computing system, while the system is operating in the first operating state. The second system software code is activated and the first system software code is deactivated to cause the computing system to operate in a second operating state. The first system software code is activated and the second system software code is deactivated to cause the system to return to the first operating state, if activation of the second system software code causes the system to operate in an undesirable manner.
US07783916B2
A data complementation method including a defective-data confirmation step of confirming if there is address information of defective data, a complementation-data confirmation step of confirming if complementation data is recorded, a complementation-data transmission request step of requesting a recovery server to transmit the complementation data, a complementation-data acquisition step of acquiring the complementation data through a communication network, and a complementation-data record step of recording the complementation data.
US07783907B2
A method and system are provided for dynamically managing delivery of power to partitionable elements in a computer system while supporting terms of a Service Level Agreement (SLA). Parameters of the SLA are gathered in conjunction with the topology of the computer system. Transactions associated with the SLA are monitored and high and low usage periods are predicted based upon a history of transactions. Power to partitionable elements of the computer system may be adjusted during high and low usage periods. In addition, dynamic management of the partitionable elements is provided in response to current demands. Management of the partitionable elements is all made in compliance with the SLA.
US07783905B2
A method for reducing power consumption of a computer system in a working state is provided. The computer system comprises a processor, a memory and a chipset, and the processor is connected with the chipset through a processor bus. The method comprises classifying the power saving level of the computer system into a predetermined number of power saving modes, checking at least one power saving mode transition condition to determine whether to automatically raise the power saving mode of the computer system, and raising the power saving mode of the computer system by lowering a first voltage supply level of the chipset and a second voltage supply level of the memory and decreasing a first working frequency of the processor bus and a second working frequency of the memory. The power consumption of the computer system is further reduced in comparison with a normal working state when the power saving mode of the computer system is further raised.
US07783904B2
A circuit for preventing a computer from being powered on before a CPU of the computer has been properly installed, the circuit includes a power supply (70) for the computer, a controller (60) connected to the power supply configured for controlling the power supply, a switch (10) exposed outside the computer for convenient operation, and a switching device (Q1). The controller includes a terminal for receiving a computer startup signal. The switch is connected to the terminal of the controller for sending the computer startup signal to the controller when the switch is triggered, wherein when the computer startup signal is sent to the sensing terminal of the controller, the controller controls the power supply to provide power to the computer. The switching device includes a control terminal configured for sensing if the CPU is installed to control conduction of the switching device.
US07783894B2
A monolithic semiconductor integrated circuit is provided for selectively encrypting or decrypting data transmitted between one of a plurality of devices on the circuit and an external memory. Two series of data pathways connect the devices and the external memory. The first series of data pathways passes through a cryptographic circuit causing data to be encrypted or decrypted, and the other series of data pathways provides an unhindered route. When a data access request is made by a device, the data is selectively routed along one of the two series of data pathways according to the identification of the device making the data access request. In one example, if data is transmitted from a device to the external memory, the data is selectively encrypted before being stored in the external memory if the device transmitting the data is identified as secure. Then, when that data is retrieved from the external memory by a second device, the data is selectively decrypted only if the second device is identified as secure.
US07783893B2
A method of secure biometric authentication is disclosed that shuffles arrays of biometric data in a sequence determined by user's secret input. The user is authenticated by comparing arrays of biometric data shuffled on the client side with the arrays of biometric data stored on the server side and shuffled in the very same sequence. Additional layer of security is provided by second shuffling in accordance with a number generated on the server and transmitted to the client after encoding with the user's public key/string retained on the server during enrollment. Real biometric data and sequences of shuffling are neither stored not transmitted anywhere; therefore, the privacy of the user is guaranteed. Security of the data transmitted to the server is not relevant because an attacker does not know the user's private key which is repeatedly recreated on the client from the real biometric data of the user.
US07783885B2
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for processing documents in a workflow system with users external to the system.An electronic document is generated in a workflow system. The electronic document has content and a document appearance, where the appearance represents the content. One or more control codes are generated for the electronic document as part of a workflow in the workflow system, where the control codes are usable to validate the content. A print out including the document appearance and the one or more control codes is created.
US07783883B2
A system and method authenticates an e-mail message containing a code that may be sent as part of an advertising campaign. The code is a hashed hash result of a combination of the e-mail address to which the message was sent and a pass phrase for the campaign, along with an identifier of the campaign. To authenticate the message, the user supplies the user's e-mail address and the code and the system and method parses the code to identify the campaign identifier and hashed hash result, looks up the pass phrase using the campaign identifier, hashes the campaign identifier and e-mail address and hashes that hash result. If the hashed hash results match, the system and method indicates the message is authentic and otherwise, indicates the message is not authentic.
US07783881B2
There is provided a method and system for verifying a device, having components. Identification numbers of the components are read and then verified. The process of verifying comprises matching each identification number in a database to determine whether each identification number is valid. In one embodiment, the database is remote from the device, wherein verification is performed over a network connecting a database server containing the database with the device. The device transmits the identification numbers for each of the components to the database server for verification. A file allocation structure reader may be located in a basic input/output system of the device for reading and verifying data files from a persistent storage media without loading an operating system. The device may comprise a gaming machine that contains a monitor for monitoring one or more system events being processed by the gaming machine. The monitor monitors routine and non-routine events. A detector is included for detecting selected system events so that they may be recorded.
US07783878B2
A device for decoupling hardware settings from software includes a hardware unit and a software module. The hardware unit has a processing element and a memory. The software module is capable of providing hardware settings for configuration of the hardware unit. The software module includes built-in instructions capable of including at least a portion of the hardware settings. The memory of the hardware device stores hardware controlled hardware settings for facilitating configuration of the hardware unit.
US07783877B2
A boot-switching apparatus suitable for a system having a plurality of processors and a plurality of memories and a method thereof are provided. While booting the system, a single timer is used for counting down a time-out and it is determined whether a disabling signal sent by a Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) is received during the countdown. If the disabling signal is not received and the time-out is up, whether the processors operate normally is further detected and a plurality of detection signals is obtained. Next, whether each of the detection signals matches its corresponding enabling signal is determined. If the two do not match, the corresponding processor is disabled. If all of them match, the memories are switched. Accordingly, the problem of misjudgment in the prior art can be resolved and the system can be led to select normal processor and memory for executing its booting.
US07783870B2
A processor includes an execution unit and instruction sequencing logic that fetches instructions from a memory system for execution. The instruction sequencing logic includes branch logic that outputs predicted branch target addresses for use as instruction fetch addresses. The branch logic includes a level one branch target address cache (BTAC) and a level two BTAC each having a respective plurality of entries each associating at least a tag with a predicted branch target address. The branch logic accesses the level one and level two BTACs in parallel with a tag portion of a first instruction fetch address to obtain a first predicted branch target address from the level one BTAC for use as a second instruction fetch address in a first processor clock cycle and a second predicted branch target address from the level two BTAC for use as a third instruction fetch address in a later second processor clock cycle.
US07783864B2
The partitioning of large arrays in the hardware structure, for multiplication and addition, into smaller structures results in a multiplier design which includes a series of nearly identical processing elements linked together in a chained fashion. As a result of simultaneous operation in two subphases per processing element and the chaining together of processing elements, the overall structure is operable in a pipelined fashion to improve throughput and speed. The chained processing elements are constructed so as to provide a pardonable chain with separate parts for processing factors of the modulus.
US07783861B2
When an instruction code “MVLR” is sent from a control processor in a PE having a mask register MR in operation setting, when the direction register F is ON, if a counter and transfer result storing buffer T is ≧M, a value of T−M is stored in buffer T, and if T is less than M, content of a first transport register L of a PE whose PE number counted from the left inside a PE block is T, is selected by a first selector and stored in buffer T and the mask register is set to non-operation. When the direction register is OFF, if T is ≦−M, a value of T+M is stored in buffer T, and if T is greater than −M, content of R of a PE whose PE number is −T, counted from the right inside the PE block, is selected by a second selector and stored in buffer T, and MR is set to non-operation. Entire PEs transfer content of L and R to M-adjacent left and right PEs, and data transferred from M-adjacent right and M-adjacent left PEs are stored in L and R respectively.
US07783852B2
Allocation of memory is optimized across multiple pools of memory, based on minimizing the time it takes to successfully retrieve a given data item from each of the multiple pools. First data is generated that indicates a hit rate per pool size for each of multiple memory pools. In an embodiment, the generating step includes continuously monitoring attempts to access, or retrieve a data item from, each of the memory pools. The first data is converted to second data that accounts for a cost of a miss with respect to each of the memory pools. In an embodiment, the second data accounts for the cost of a miss in terms of time. How much of the memory to allocate to each of the memory pools is determined, based on the second data. In an embodiment, the steps of converting and determining are automatically performed, on a periodic basis.
US07783847B2
A method for reallocating blocks in a storage pool involves copying multiple source blocks to multiple replacement blocks, where the source blocks are stored on a source disk in the storage pool, and where the replacement blocks are stored on one or more replacement disks in the storage pool, and generating an indirection object, where the indirection object includes a mapping of locations of the source blocks to locations of the replacement blocks.
US07783841B2
A cache coherent data processing system includes at least first and second coherency domains each including at least one processing unit and a cache memory. The cache memory includes a cache controller, a data array including a data storage location for caching a memory block, and a cache directory. The cache directory includes a tag field for storing an address tag in association with the memory block and a coherency state field associated with the tag field and the data storage location. The coherency state field has a plurality of possible states including a state that indicates that the address tag is valid, that the storage location does not contain valid data, and that the memory block is possibly cached outside of the first coherency domain.
US07783838B1
A computer system has secondary data that is derived from primary data, such as entries in a TLB being derived from entries in a page table. When an actor changes the primary data, a producer indicates the change in a set data structure, such as a data array, in memory that is shared by the producer and a consumer. There may be multiple producers and multiple consumers and each producer/consumer pair has a separate channel. At coherency events, at which incoherencies between the primary data and the secondary data should be removed, consumers read the channels to determine the changes, and update the secondary data accordingly. The system may be a multiprocessor virtual computer system, the actor may be a guest operating system, and the producers and consumers may be subsystems within a virtual machine monitor, wherein each subsystem exports a separate virtual central processing unit.
US07783835B2
A system and method of improved task switching in a data processing system. First, a first-level cache memory casts out an invalidated page table entry and an associated first page directory base address to a second-level cache memory. Then, the second-level cache memory determines if a task switch has occurred. If a task switch has not occurred, first-level cache memory sends the invalidated page table entry to a current running task directory. If a task switch has occurred, first-level cache memory loads from the second-level cache directory a collection of page table entries related to a new task to enable improved task switching without requiring access to a page table stored in main memory to retrieve the collection of page table entries.
US07783831B1
A computer system or memory medium with instructions executable by a computer system to detect and/or suggest corrective actions when performance and availability are violated in an environment deploying virtualization at multiple levels. In one embodiment the computer system receives identities of a plurality of first physical storage devices, wherein storage in the plurality of first physical storage devices was logically aggregated to create a first storage object. The computer system also receives identities of a plurality of second physical storage devices, wherein storage in the plurality of second physical storage devices was logically aggregated to create a second storage object. Then, the computer system compares the identity of each of the plurality of first physical storage devices with the identities of the plurality of second physical storage devices.
US07783829B2
A write-once optical disc and a method and apparatus for recording management information of the write-once optical disc, are provided. The method includes closing an opened session by closing all opened sequential recording-units of the opened session, opening a new session having a new sequential recording-unit, and recording session start information on the recording medium. The session start information indicates whether or not the new sequential recording-unit is a start of the new session.
US07783828B1
A storage device controller coupled to a storage device having a multiple locations for storing data coupled to may receive a WRITE ANYWHERE command including write data but not specifying a location of the storage device where the write data should be stored. The controller responds to the WRITE ANYWHERE command by selecting one or more unused locations of the storage device, and writing the write data in the one or more unused locations of the storage device. After writing the write data to the storage device, the controller may report where the write data is stored to the host. The host may also issue FREE commands to the controller specifying locations of the storage device which should be identified as unused. In response to a received FREE command, the controller may store information in a memory indicating that the location specified by the FREE command is unused.
US07783827B2
The data processor enhances the bus throughput or data throughput of an external memory, when there are frequent continuous reads with a smaller data size than the data bus width of the external memory. The data processor includes a memory control unit being capable of controlling in response to a clock an external memory having plural banks that are individually independently controllable, plural buses connected to the memory control unit, and circuit modules capable of commanding memory accesses, which are provided in correspondence with each of the buses. The memory control unit contains bank caches each corresponding to the banks of the external memory. Thereby, the data processor enhances the bus throughput or data throughput of the external memory, since the data processor stores the data read out from the external memory temporarily in the bank caches and to use the stored data without invalidating them, when performing a continuous data read with a smaller data size than the data bus width of the external memory.
US07783821B2
The present invention provides methods and modules allowing for mapping of interface signals at for instance multi-line buses. A mapping of internal signal order schemes to external signal order schemes is enabled such that upon configuration any interface signals may carried on any lines of a multi-line bus. The configurability may obtained by the implementation of mapping logics and mapping algorithms, which associates external interface terminal to signal association to internal interface terminal to signal association in a configurable manner.
US07783802B1
An embodiment of the present invention includes a switch employed in a system having two hosts and a device and for coupling two or more host ports to a device. The switch includes a power signal control circuit generating a power signal for use by the device in receiving power for operability thereto, the power signal control circuit responsive to detection of inoperability of the device and in response thereto, toggling the power signal to the device while avoiding interruption to the system.
US07783800B2
A method of managing a network. The method includes receiving an activation key transmitted from a device connected to the network, automatically transmitting a configuration to the device, automatically maintaining the configuration of the device, and receiving log information from the device.
US07783797B2
A method for issuing shadow requests to manage bandwidth allocation between an application that issues input/output (I/O) operation requests and an I/O device. A bandwidth manager detects the completion of an I/O operation, which includes either a read operation or a write operation. The bandwidth manager calculates a statistical duration for future I/O operations between the application and the I/O device based on throughput statistics related to past I/O operations. The bandwidth manager generates a shadow request for reserving a position in a queue that stores pending I/O requests for the I/O device for a first future I/O operation request from the application and having a duration related to the statistical duration, and inserts the shadow request into the queue. Advantageously, applications that do not make frequent I/O operation requests in advance may still execute I/O operations because bandwidth is reserved for future I/O operation requests via the shadow requests.
US07783795B2
A serial communication circuit for performing full duplex serial communication with a microcomputer includes a counter and a timer. The counter is incremented by each pulse of a serial clock signal output from the microcomputer. When the counter reaches the number of bits of serial data output from the microcomputer, the counter outputs a load signal to a receiving register. The timer starts to count after the counter outputs the receiving load signal for the first time and continues to count during the serial communication. The timer expires at a predetermined time interval. Each time the timer expires, the timer outputs a timer signal. In response to the timer signal, a synchronous signal is output to the microcomputer, the counter is cleared to zero, and data to be output to the microcomputer is loaded into a sending register.
US07783793B2
A memory controller provides page copy logic that assures data coherency when a DMA operation to a page occurs during the copying of the page by the memory controller. The page copy logic compares the page index of the DMA operation to a copy address pointer that indicates the location currently being copied. If the page index of the DMA operation is less than the copy address pointer, the portion of the page that would be written to by the DMA operation has already been copied, so the DMA operation is performed to the physical address of the new page. If the page index of the DMA operation is greater than the copy address pointer, the portion of the page that would be written to by the DMA operation has not yet been copied, so the DMA operation is performed to the physical address of the old page.
US07783776B2
The present invention concerns a method for distribution of the load of a managing center transmitting information to a great number of user units, each unit receiving information after a request carried out while connecting to the managing center, characterized in that it comprises following steps: determining by the managing center of a number of units to process with said information, determining of a time period during which said number of units has to be processed, transmitting of a message to the user units comprising on one hand, the probability of connection of a unit to the managing center based on the number of units previously determined and on the other hand, the time period previously determined during which the unit connects according to said probability.
US07783775B2
Multimedia content is provided continuously for multiple users each potentially moving to a different place while enjoying it together. The system includes a network for transmitting preferably IP-format data, a first device for outputting particular multimedia content received through the network, and a second device for outputting a second multimedia content prepared for, and received upon requesting, continuous provision of the particular multimedia content through the network. A contents server delivers the particular multimedia content and the second multimedia output to the first and second devices, respectively. The second multimedia content consists of the part of the particular multimedia content remaining to be transmitted at the point of time at which the second device requested the continuous provision of the particular multimedia content.
US07783771B2
Network communication device for universal plug and play and internet multimedia subsystems networks
A device and method for seamlessly internetworking local area networks utilizing the Universal Plug and Play protocol with wide area networks utilizing the Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem architecture. The network communication device includes a universal plug and play (UPnP) interface and an Internet Protocol multimedia subsystem (IMS) interface. Circuitry is communicatively coupled to the UPnP interface and the IMS interface, wherein the circuitry associates an UPnP session key with an associated electronic equipment for allowing communication between the one or more associated devices and the associated electronic equipment.
US07783742B2
Methods for providing dynamic process recovery that supports recovery of event driven services. The present invention addresses situations where a service-hosting process fails as well as all of the services which were running in that process. To recover from this scenario, the present invention restarts the services from a last known good state. The present invention also provides for situations where a process is shut down in a controlled manner, but the services running within it are still able to drive. Here again, the services are restarted in a secondary process. The recovery modal described here, therefore, advantageously addresses a problem in the design of a distributed event-driven environment.
US07783720B1
A system and method for managing network devices using a metadata gateway. The metadata gateway provides translation of metadata to and from a database format and Interface Definition Language (IDL), which is operable across a plurality of platforms and across a plurality of programming languages. Metadata may be retrieved through the metadata gateway by a client manager application sending a request for type information for a managed object attribute or event in IDL through a CORBA Object Request Broker (ORB) to the metadata gateway, which then reads the type information from a metadata repository, where the type information is stored in a database format. The metadata gateway then translates the retrieved type information from the database format to IDL and sends the translated type information to the ORB, which sends the translated type information for the attribute or event to the client manager application. Metadata may be encoded through the metadata gateway by sending the metadata in IDL to the metadata gateway, which translates the type information from IDL to a database format and stores the type information in the metadata repository.
US07783719B2
A method of crediting an online publisher when a user uses the online publisher to access an online advertiser using a web browser is disclosed. The online publisher displays a tracked advertisement on the user's browser, the tracked advertisement being identifiable by a publisher tracked advertisement identifier, with the online advertiser being associated with an advertising network that is hosted on an advertising network server. The online advertiser is identifiable by an advertising network identifier and an associated advertising network tracking integration code. The method comprises receiving a request from the user to access the advertising network server, directing the user to the advertising network server, setting a tracking cookie on the visitor's web browser, the tracking cookie including the publisher tracked advertisement identifier and a timestamp, redirecting the visitor's browser to a controlling server, setting a master cookie on the visitor's browser, the master cookie including the advertising network identifier and a timestamp on the user's browser, redirecting the visitor's browser to the online advertiser, allowing the user to conclude a transaction with the online advertiser, launching a confirmation page comprising a master pixel tracking integration code comprising at least one variable for the concluded transaction, sending the master pixel tracking integration code to the controlling server, checking the user's web browser for a previously set master cookie and, if the cookie is found, writing the transaction into the controlling server, crediting the advertising network specified in the cookie, and triggering the display of the advertising network tracking integration code.
US07783712B2
A portable storage device is connected to a first computer and the email data is synchronized between the first computer and the device. The portable storage device can then be connected to a second computer that has an email program that is incompatible with the first computer's email program. The second computer is personalized with the email data retrieved from the portable device. The user is allowed to use the second computer to send or receive emails and otherwise alter the email data. Upon logging out of the second computer, any changes made thereon can be recorded to the portable storage device. The device can then be re-connected to the first computer and the data can once again be re-synchronized. The universal format database enables bidirectional synchronization and conversion of email data between multiple incompatible format email programs.
US07783710B2
This invention consists of a restricted online social network system that does not expose one member's friends to other members and a method of spreading a message in the system by members asking the system to show the message to their friends, recursively. The system records each member's actions on a message and reports the message's overall reach, acceptance and effectiveness through various metrics. Further, when a viewer submits a form embedded in the message, the system can fulfill an online transaction or send an online communication. Also, the system integrates with internet search engines and online advertisement vendors to promote the message on the internet.
US07783708B2
Attachment browser is described. In an embodiment, an attachment browser displays a selection of communications received from multiple sources where each of the communications has an attachment. A representative image of each attachment is organized for display according to an attribute of the respective attachment, and a portion of each communication is displayed proximate an associated representative image to maintain the association of a communication and a respective attachment.
US07783704B2
The present invention is directed to a system, including apparatus and architecture, and method for providing scheduled and ad hoc voice over IP conference services having enhanced quality and reliability. The system uses an overlay network of geographically distributed conference servers working simultaneously and collaboratively to host a given conference session. Multiple conference servers simultaneously and collaboratively perform the necessary audio mixing. The voice routing path is established and controlled within the overlay network and supports conference services across different conference service providers.
US07783699B2
A user interface system and method for a vehicle enables access to services available through an electronic device. The user interface system includes a networking gateway configured to receive a first data set from the electronic device. A service engine is included, which is operable with the networking gateway. The service engine is configured to process the first data set and output a second data set that corresponds to the services. A data transformation agent receives the second data set and generates a third data set, wherein the third data set is in a predetermined format. A user interface module is included that is configured to communicate with the data transformation agent. The user interface module receives the third data set having the predetermined format and the user interface module provides an interface for the user to access the services available through the electronic device.
US07783693B2
A reconfigurable circuit is provided, which includes a first arithmetic unit that performs addition or subtraction of a first input data and a second input data and outputs output data, and a first selector that selects an output data of the first arithmetic unit or a third input data and outputs the selected one as the first input data to the first arithmetic unit.
US07783689B2
Providing updates to a computing device having a search engine capable of searching a local data store having an index with data related to a plurality of sites located on a wide area network. A first index builder capable of accessing sites on a wide area network is provided. The first index builder retrieves and analyzes data from the sites to create index data related to the sites. The method further includes communicating index data to the locally stored database for incrementally updating the index. A computing device capable of accessing a local data storage device is also provided. The device includes an index stored on the storage device including information related to data stored on the wide area network, a search engine capable of searching the index to retrieve information in response to a query, and a display.
US07783687B2
A data product that can be read into a computer or a map data processing apparatus contains map data that includes map-related information related to a map. The map data includes: a structure achieved by dividing the map into a plurality of mesh-like subdivisions and dividing the map-related information into units corresponding to the individual subdivisions; and a structure in which the map-related information is managed in units of subdivision sets each containing a plurality of adjacent subdivisions and the map-related information is used in the map data processing apparatus in units of the individual subdivision sets.
US07783675B2
A method and system is presented for storing data in data cells containing only a single element of data. Each data cell includes four components: an Entity Instance identifier (“O”), an Entity Type identifier (“E”) an Attribute Type identifier (“A”), and an Attribute Value (“V”). Groups of cells with identical O and E values constitute a cell set. Every cell contains a unique combination of O, E, A, and V. Relationships between cell sets are established by creating two synapse cells. The first synapse cell has O and E values of the first cell set, and has A and V values equal to the E and O value, respectively, of the second cell. The second synapse cell has O and E values of the second cell, and has as its A and V values the E and O value, respectively, of the first cell.
US07783674B2
A method and apparatus for relocating application programs, settings, menus, files and documents from a source computer to a target computer. The method and apparatus function properly regardless of whether the source and target computers have the same hardware or operating system. The method includes scanning the source and target machines for all applications programs, settings, menus, files, and documents in order to create a relocation strategy. The relocation strategy is created in view of pre-programmed selection rules or selection rules created by the user. The strategy is then implemented by copying, replacing or merging data from the source machine to the target machine.
US07783672B2
Provided are support mechanisms for a user interface mechanism that performs group policy management. The support mechanisms include a context menu map that provides a consistent and efficient way to generate interactive context menus for nodes using only straightforward declarations. The declarations are processed to invoke code with corresponding parameters that in turn generates a data structure corresponding to a context menu that is to be displayed. The data structure is processed into another data structure, from which data is extracted to meet the requirements of a hosting management application. An intermediary communications object is provided to separate the user interface into multiple components which each exchange data. A progress dialog is also provided to update the user as to the progress of lengthy operations performed on various managed objects, and to drive those operations. Refresh logic replicates changes made at one location in the user interface to other nodes.
US07783667B2
The subject matter disclosed herein provides methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for determining keys for use with data structures, such as objects, business objects, view business objects, and the like. In one aspect, there is provided a computer-implemented method. The method may include determining a first key of a view business object node by combining one or more keys of the business object nodes used to form the view business object node, the first key used to identify the view business object node when the view business object node is a root node. The method may also include determining, when the view business object node has a parent node, a second key of the view business object node by combining the first key and at least one key of the parent node, the second key used to identify the view business object node. Next, the method may store at least one of the first key and the second key to identify the view business object node during a query or a retrieve operation associated with a database. Related apparatus, systems, methods, and articles are also described.
US07783664B2
Disclosed are “black-box leases” that protect information consistency and that allow for information sharing in a distributed file system while hiding from a client information about other clients' use of the file system. This information hiding also allows greater concurrency because changes to the file system are permitted as long as they do not affect the leases as observed by the clients. For each data field protected by a black-box lease, a client has a two-value data structure: SelfValue represents the client's intended use of the data field, and OtherValue is an aggregation of the other clients' intended uses of that data field. Knowing only this aggregate OtherValue, but without knowing any specifics of the other clients' usage patterns, the client knows how it may use the data field without adversely affecting the consistency of data in the distributed file system.
US07783662B2
A method for management of federated information in associated knowledge systems. The method includes maintaining a data structure, the data structure including associative metadata that correlates a plurality of substantive knowledge entities from a plurality of disparate knowledge bases; monitoring the substantive knowledge entities for an access-limiting event; determining the access-limiting event on at least one of the substantive knowledge entities; and responsive to determining the access-limiting event, adding to the associative metadata a persistent audit enhancement indicative of the access-limiting event, the persistent audit enhancement including a timestamp. The access-limiting event may include deletion of a substantive knowledge entity, enacting more restrictive access permissions for a substantive knowledge entity, and copying of a substantive knowledge entity to a more restrictive access area.
US07783659B2
A system and method of assessing and refining quality of Web services (WSDL) definitions for enabling automatic discovery and matching thereof, which includes normalizing definition elements and identifying at least one element as being at least one of cryptic, ambiguous, and unclear to provide a normalization output, assessing a quality of the at least one definition element based on the normalization output, classifying the identified at least one definition element into at least one predetermined category, and providing a quality assessment output, and automatically generating a recommendation for changing at least one definition element based on at least one of the normalization output and the quality assessment output, thereby enabling automatic discovery and matching thereof.
US07783657B2
A search authoring tool for mapping queries to assets for use in an information retrieval system has a query-to-asset mappings database, a search authoring engine, and a search evaluation engine. The query-to-asset mappings database is built from search author input and user mappings. The search authoring engine is adapted to receive operator input and to generate one or more new query-to-asset mappings based on the received operator input. The search evaluation engine is adapted to compare the one or more new query-to-asset mappings to the existing mappings to determine if the one or more new query-to-asset mappings will cause performance degradation of the information retrieval system.
US07783652B2
A content management system determines which user submitted content is to be included in a default experience of a mixed content website. Users submitting content are assigned trust levels based on their history of content submittal and other users' experience with the submitted content. Once a user reaches a predetermined trust level, their content may be included in the default experience without further vetting. An additional complaint review mechanism may be included for filtering unacceptable content and adjusting a submitting user's trust level.
US07783649B2
An embodiment relates to a method of managing primitives. The method includes providing a data structure available in user-space where the data structure comprises at least one futex. The method also includes detecting a termination of the process and searching the data structure for status of the at least one futex. The method further includes releasing the at least one futex in response to status of the at least one futex being held and setting a flag for at least one futex. The method further includes notifying at least one process waiting for the released at least one futex.
US07783648B2
A partitioning system that provides a fast, simple and flexible method for partitioning a dataset. The process, executed within a computer system, retrieves product and sales data from a data store. Data items are selected and sorted by a data attribute of interest to a user and a distribution curve is determined for the selected data and data attribute. The total length of the distribution curve is calculated, and then the curve is divided into k equal pieces, where k is the number of the partitions. The selected data is thereafter partitioned into k groups corresponding to the curve divisions.
US07783643B2
A method of document retrieval is provided. The method includes assigning concept labels to documents contained in a collection according to grammar rules, receiving a query, converting the query to a query concept using the grammar rules, and mapping the query concept to a concept label.
US07783638B2
The present invention is a method, system and apparatus for supporting search and query operations in a composite help view for an aggregation of applications. The system can include an application aggregator configured to aggregate individual applications into a single aggregated view. The system further can include a help system configured to render a help system view having composite help documentation formed from at least two help documents, each of the help documents corresponding to one of the individual applications. Help invoking logic can be coupled to the help system and disposed in the single aggregated view. A search and query tool also can be coupled to the help system through a search and query interface. Finally, an index can be coupled to the search and query tool. The index can include keywords disposed in the help documents and title information for individual applications corresponding to the help documents.
US07783636B2
Query logs are accessed to obtain queries, user information that specifies a user from which the query was received, a long with a selected result that was selected by the specified user who authored the query. This query log information is used to identify classes of users that looked for a similar result given a similar query. Those classes can then be used by a search engine in order to rank or provide search results to a user in response to a query input by the user.
US07783624B2
An infrastructure facility for interactive commerce in media objects over a network is described. Consumers are provided with searchable access to media object suppliers using standardized commercial packages. A commercial package is associated with a media object by using a commerce tag consisting of embedded metadata to identify the associated commercial package and optionally parameterize a commercial offer. The infrastructure facility provides a searchable database of available media objects with commerce tags, media object suppliers, and an accessible reference for commercial packages and associated tags.
US07783614B2
Methods and systems are provided for mapping and linking elements in a document to corresponding fields or queries in a database. A document is annotated with structural elements of a markup language, such as Extensible Markup Language (XML), in order to map portions of the document to the corresponding database. Once individual elements within the document are mapped and linked to corresponding data fields or queries within a selected database, changes made to individual elements within the document automatically cause updates to corresponding data in the database to which those elements are mapped and linked. Conversely, changes made to individual data fields within the selected database automatically update corresponding elements within the document.
US07783598B1
Methods of operating a computer storage system where an identical copy of a mirror source filesystem is maintained on a mirror destination storage volume managed by a mirror destination server. A modification to the mirror source filesystem is planned and executed, and a corresponding change to the mirror destination filesystem is accomplished by storing data directly to the mirror destination storage volume, bypassing filesystem logic that interprets the data stored on the volume. Systems that implement these methods are also described.
US07783595B2
A mobile communication terminal for downloading contents and a method thereof. The mobile communication terminal comprises: a memory for storing at least one multimedia data to be outputted while downloading contents; a controller for outputting at least one control signal to control an output of the stored multimedia data when prediction time for downloading the contents is more than a preset time; and at least one output device for outputting the stored multimedia data based on the outputted control signal.
US07783590B2
The present invention provides a task selection assistance apparatus, and a task selection assistance method, which enable burdens on a user to be alleviated in selecting a task for solving a problem. A domain candidate determining portion 210 determines domain candidates to be presented to the user from among domains stored in a task model DB 102, and a domain candidate transmitting portion 201 transmits the domain candidates to a portable terminal 101. A user selected domain obtaining portion 203 obtains a domain, which has been selected by the user, from the portable terminal 101, and the task candidate determining portion 211 determines task candidates to be presented to the user from among tasks stored in the task model DB 102 based on the domain selected by the user.
US07783586B2
A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for inferring a probability of a first inference absent from a database at which a query regarding the inference is received. Each datum of the database is conformed to the dimensions of the database. Each datum of the plurality of data has associated metadata and an associated key. The associated metadata includes data regarding cohorts associated with the corresponding datum, data regarding hierarchies associated with the corresponding datum, data regarding a corresponding source of the datum, and data regarding probabilities associated with integrity, reliability, and importance of each associated datum. The query is used as a frame of reference for the search. The database returns a probability of the correctness of the first inference based on the query and on the data.
US07783585B2
A data processing device for processing time-sequence data includes a learning unit for performing self-organizing learning of a SOM (self-organization map) making up a hierarchical SOM in which a plurality of SOMs are connected so as to construct a hierarchical structure, using, as SOM input data which is input to the SOM, a time-sequence of node information representing a winning node of a lower-order SOM which is at a lower hierarchical level from the SOM.
US07783584B1
The present invention mimics certain behaviors of a human brain using at least one frequency controllable oscillator block that has multiple operating frequency regions, such that some of the regions tend to lock on to a frequency, while other regions do not have any locking tendencies. A stimulation using at least one stimulation signal based on information input to the system may alter the regions and determine a stable final frequency after a brief processing interval. A control system may process the final frequency to provide system information. A controllable oscillator block may have at least one basin of attraction that corresponds with a stable region of the stimulation signal. Additionally, the controllable oscillator block may function outside of a basin of attraction that corresponds with a non-stable region of the stimulation signal.
US07783581B2
A discriminative data learning system provided comprises a learning device for updating dictionary data having a template to be used for discriminating the category of a hierarchical structure, and a discriminating device for classifying a pattern into a category with reference to the dictionary data. The learning device includes a learning data storage unit for storing the pattern and the category number of the category, to which the pattern belongs, a dictionary data storage unit for holding the template and the category number, to which the template belongs, a similarity calculating unit for calculating the similarity between the pattern and the template, an update calculating unit for calculating a first update for updating the template, on the basis of the similarity, a weighing unit for multiplying the first update by a weighing constant each determined separately for the hierarchy of the category, to determine a second update, and a dictionary updating unit for updating the template on the basis of the second update. The discriminating device includes a category determining unit for classifying the input pattern having the calculated similarity, into the same category as that of the template having a high similarity.
US07783580B2
The invention provides a novel control method combining fuzzy logic control with gain auto-tuning sliding mode control. A control error signal e(t) from the detection mechanism and an error change signal ce(t) are combined together as a sliding variable s(t)=ce(t)+λe(t) and used as the fuzzy input control variable. Using the control method, 2D fuzzy control rule is simplified into 1D fuzzy control rule through the sliding variable definition for enhancing the efficiency of computation and saving computation resources. Accordingly, both the quick transient response and steady state precision positioning can be achieved. The present method can overcome the disadvantages of current controller, which can not reach the desired transient and steady state responses simultaneously.
US07783579B2
A method and apparatus for obtaining access to services of service providers. In one embodiment, the method comprises requesting a desired service through a foreign service provider, generating a hash tree and generating a digital signature on a root value of the hash tree, sending the digital signature and the root value to the foreign service provider, providing one or more tokens to the foreign service provider with the next packet if the foreign service provider accepts the signature and continuing to use the service while the foreign service provider accepts tokens.
US07783578B2
The method and system of the invention provide a variety of techniques for using a selected alias and a selected personal identification entry (PIE) in conjunction with use of a transaction card, such as a credit card, debit card or stored value card, for example. A suitable number or other identification parameter is selected by the account-holder as an alias. The account-holder is then required to choose a PIE for security purposes. The alias is linked to the account-holder's credit card number via a database. When the account-holder enters into a transaction with a merchant, the physical card need not be present. The account-holder simply provides his or her alias and then the PIE. This can be done at any point of sale such as a store, catalog telephone order, or over the Internet. The alias and PIE are entered and authorization is returned from the credit card company.
US07783574B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods for sharing information during a customer service session. In this regard, one embodiment of such a method comprises the steps of: displaying a plurality of consumer service input process fields associated with a plurality of consumer service process steps, where the plurality of input process fields are displayed concurrently in an interface. Further, each of the plurality of input process fields is associated with at least one record keeping system. The method further includes the steps of sharing information provided in one of the input process fields with a designated computer tool in response to receiving a command from a user and forwarding information provided in the input process fields at the end of a consumer service process to a record keeping system. Other methods and devices are also provided.
US07783573B2
Methods and apparatuses are provided for use with smartcards or other like shared computing resources. By selectively granting exclusive use to a requesting entity for a period of time, performance is improved by reducing unnecessary redundant overhead data, communication, storage and/or processing for an applicable series of transactions associated with a granted access request operation.
US07783565B1
A method and system for evaluating loan repurchase risk are disclosed. The method includes receiving information related to the loan and determining a loan repurchase risk based on upon the information. The information may be used to determine a joint probability of an underwriting discrepancy sufficient to trigger a repurchase request and an adverse event in connection with the loan, such as default or delinquency. In one embodiment, depending on the repurchase risk, the purchaser may waive repurchase rights in connection with the loan, thereby reducing the requirements of the seller to reserve capital for the loan.
US07783564B2
An analysis system processes financial transactions data for compliance with a payment program, such that the processing involves receiving data relating to a set of financial transactions that have been authorized by a payment processing system, and determining if one or more of the authorized financial transactions will be subjected to further processing, wherein the further processing operates on the received data and identifies authorized financial transactions that may be out of compliance with transaction rules of the payment program.
US07783562B1
A system providing a comprehensive tool useful in credit risk managing a set of loans. The system includes a method for obtaining an estimated financial outcome, i.e., a gain or a loss, for a particular loan, and applying the estimated loss for to the set. The system also includes a method for obtaining a probability of a loss for a particular loan, and applying the probability of loss to the set. The system further includes the generation of a list of loans from the set of loans with a heightened risk of loss.
US07783555B2
A method, apparatus, and system are provided for declining auction with interest rate bidding. According to one embodiment, an interest rate may be set for a transacted financial instrument, and information regarding the financial instrument and an interest rate at which the financial instrument is offered are published via a computer network. Offers from respective bidders to transact the financial instrument may be received, via the computer network, being expressed as offered interest rates at which the bidders are willing to transact the financial instrument. On the termination of a bid receiving process, whether at least one of the offers satisfies transaction criteria, as defined by a seller of the financial instrument, may be determined. If it is determined that at least one of the offers satisfies the transaction criteria, then at least one of the offers may be identified as an accepted offer.
US07783549B1
A system for processing securities transactions includes a client module to obtain transaction data corresponding to a plurality of heterogeneous financial products from at least one external operational system, a transaction engine that processes the transaction data from the client module to convert and normalize the transaction data, and stores the converted transaction data as a series of temporal events in a transaction database, and a data access module to provide access to the converted transaction data stored in the transaction database.
US07783547B1
The invention is a system and method for recording, generating and presenting hedge strategy stock market forecasts based upon the collective input of individuals in an investment community. Input gathered from individuals in the investment community is aggregated and processed into consensus hedge strategy forecasts. A randomly generated pair of stock tickers is presented to a user. The user casts a vote by selecting the stock that the user thinks will outperform the other one over a specified period of time. The system records the resulting hedge strategy forecast, which is comprised of a long stock position for the stock chosen and a short stock position for the stock not chosen. The system tabulates input from multiple individuals to calculate consensus forecasts.
US07783538B1
A plurality of instruments are equitably distributed between a plurality of accounts. One implementation includes: calculating an overall average value for the instruments, and determining the best allocation for the instruments by iteratively distributing the instruments in the accounts and evaluating the errors between the accounts and the average instrument value for each allocation. Another implementation includes sorting the accounts into a first group having an account average instrument value greater than the overall average instrument value, a second group having an account average instrument value less than the overall average instrument value, and a third group where the values are equal. Then, improved distributions are attempted by exchanging instruments between accounts in the first group and accounts in the second group. The process is iterative until all possible instrument combinations between the first group and the second group have been tried and no further improvements can be made.
US07783533B1
Selecting one or more entities from a plurality of candidate entities subject to one or more constraints is accomplished by establishing upper and lower profit-margin boundary values and determining an optimal profit-margin value within the boundary values using an iterative process. The iterative process includes one or more iterations of: setting a current profit-margin candidate based on a current upper profit-margin boundary value and a current lower profit-margin boundary value, determining whether the current profit-margin candidate value satisfies the constraint(s), adjusting the current upper or lower profit-margin boundary value based on the current profit-margin candidate value, and determining whether to use the current profit-margin candidate value as the optimal profit-margin value based the current upper profit-margin boundary value and the current lower profit-margin boundary value. The respective quantity for each of the candidate entities is then calculated based on the optimal profit-margin value.
US07783526B1
Embodiments of the disclosed technology, by way of a bidirectional transceiver, allow a user of a handheld device with phone and/or data service to place a bid in an auction for an item, whereby the user is charged for the bid, and both a phone service provider and auction provider receive at least a part of the proceeds. In this manner, unregistered (previously unknown to the auction provider) bids may be placed, with security on the part of the auction provider that the bid will be honored.
US07783521B2
Under the present invention, a customer will login to a secure computer infrastructure and initially be polled and/or provide some input relating to an integrated IT solution that is desired. The customer can then make selections for hardware and/or software components desired for the integrated IT solution. The present invention will analyze the selections and verify whether each of the selected components is of similar quality to one another. If not, the customer can be alerted. The present invention will also make recommendations for services that best match the selected components. The integrated IT solution will then be finalized based on the components and services selected by the customer. Once the solution has been finalized, a corresponding contract(s) can be developed/generated, approved and executed within the secure computer infrastructure.
US07783519B2
An eyebolt inventory control method in which a plurality of eyebolt bodies are provided. The eyebolt bodies all have about the same nominal dimensions and they include a skirt member that is reinforced by radially projecting diametrically extending ribs. The skirts are provided with striking faces so that they can be tightened and loosened by striking them with a hammer. A fixed lifting eye projects from one side of the skirt, and a mounting stud projects from the opposite side. The mounting stud is double threaded with one thread being adapted to mate with a threaded bore in the body of the eyebolt assembly, and the other thread being matched to a threaded bore in a load. The same eyebolt body can be employed with a plurality of different mounting studs, which simplifies inventorying eyebolt assemblies to meet all of the different threaded bores that may occur in different loads. Only the mounting studs need to bear threads that match the threads in the loads. When two different orders are accepted an eyebolt body is selected for each order, and mounting studs are selected to match the threads in the intended loads. Either eyebolt body may be assembled to either mounting stud.
US07783513B2
An apparatus includes a plurality of storable representations of interactions between an agent of a business and customers, wherein the business is located in a first geographic area. A storage device in communication with the first geographic area is configured to receive and store the storable representations wherein the storable representations are capable of being analyzed at high frequency for service quality in the second geographic area by an analyst. The second geographic area is subject to a geographic wage attenuator. Report data is generated and fed back to the agent; the report data represents the quality of service rendered by the agent to the customers. An agent can be informed of at least one agent performance element that was well performed and at least one agent performance element that could be performed even better.
US07783511B2
A method and system for managing scheduled events facilitates the planning of a tour of activities. Customer information and appointment information is received. A tour of activities is planned based on the customer information, the appointment information, and planning drivers. A status is generated for the tour of activities, a particular activity, or a particular customer, and a summary is generated.
US07783503B2
A medical support system and method for performing at least one medical support process relating to diagnosis and treatment of a medical condition and that includes or employs medical records relating to patients and medical support databases including medical guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of a medical condition. A medical support process includes one or more process phases, which may include a data phase, a diagnostic phase and a therapy/treatment recommendation phase. Each process phase includes one or more process operations wherein each of the process operations of a process phase includes one or more process forms providing interfaces between a user and the process operations. Each process form includes fields for passing user inputs to the process operations and for displaying the results of the process operations to the user and the support processes are responsive to user inputs, the medical records and the guidelines to execute an interactive dialogue between the medical support process and the user to provide guidance to the user in performing the medical support process according to the guidelines and dependent upon the user inputs and the medical record.
US07783497B2
Providing adaptive visual browsing of digital content may be accomplished by presenting a scrolling ticker on a display for browsing of digital content available for viewing by a user of a processing system, the ticker having a plurality of items, each item including an image representing at least one of a content title and a content service provider; receiving a user input selection from a remote control device operated by the user, the user input selection selecting one of the ticker items to indicate the user's interest in the selected item; and changing at least one of the items in the ticker to another item in response to the user input selection, wherein the other item has metatags similar to or related to metatags of the selected item.
US07783492B2
Gesture and handwriting recognition agents provide possible interpretations of electronic ink. Recognition is performed on both individual strokes and combinations of strokes in the input ink lattice. The interpretations of electronic ink are classified and encoded as symbol complexes where symbols convey specific attributes of the contents of the stroke. The use of symbol complexes to represent strokes in the input ink lattice facilitates reference to sets of entities of a specific type.
US07783485B2
Finite-state transducers and weighted finite-state automata may not be determinizable. The twins property can be used to characterize the determinizability of such devices. For a weighted finite-state automaton or transducer, that weighted finite-state automaton or transducer and its inverse are intersected or composed, respectively. The resulting device is checked to determine if it has the cycle-identity property. If not, the original weighted finite-state automaton or transducer is not determinizable. For a weighted or unweighted finite-state transducer, that device is checked to determine if it is functional. If not, that device is not determinizable. That device is then composed with its inverse. The composed device is checked to determine if every edge in the composed device having a cycle-accessible end state meets at least one of a number of conditions. If so, the original device has the twins property. If the original device has the twins property, then it is determinizable.
US07783482B2
A method and apparatus for enhancing voice intelligibility for network communications of speech such as, for example, VoIP (Voice-Over-Internet-Protocol), in the presence of packets which arrive too late for normal playout. When a late speech packet is received by a speech decoder, that packet and, if necessary, one or more additional packets subsequent thereto, are played out over a shorter than normal duration so that the decoder can “catch up” with the encoder. Since a voice frame is usually decoded in several sub-frames—typically two or three—this shortened playout may be achieved, for example, by skipping one sub-frame from each frame to be shortened.
US07783472B2
A document translation method having extracting a term from a document, executing a substitute process and outputting the term in a predetermined manner. The process of executing a substitute process on the term is performed in a translating process when the term from the document matches a term predetermined by a user. The substitute process is corresponding to the term and predetermined by the user.
US07783471B2
The invention provides a communication device for emulating a behavior of a navigation device in response to executing a device firmware program installed on the navigation device. The communication device comprises a provider for providing information relating to the device firmware program, a determiner for determining whether a current firmware program installed on the communication device corresponds to the device firmware program installed on the navigation device and a processor for executing the current firmware program on the communication device in order to emulate the behavior of the navigation device if the current firmware program corresponds to the device firmware.
US07783461B2
Systems for simulating vehicle operation include a computer having a pedal activation program, the pedal activation program comprising instructions for generating signals relating to operation of a vehicle from the computer to a pedal sensor output according to a predetermined driving profile. Methods for simulating vehicle operation include providing a computer having a pedal activation program, utilizing the pedal activation program to initiate output signals to a pedal sensor output relating to a vehicle condition and transmitting the output signals to an engine control unit to implement a driving profile programmable within the pedal activation program.
US07783460B1
Methods and systems for translating models generated in one modeling environment into models that can be used in other modeling environments are disclosed. Models are created using different data formats in different modeling environments. These data formats are generally incompatible with each other. Therefore, the present invention provides a neutral data format that can store information relating to models generated in one modeling environment, and that can be used by other modeling environments to create their models. The present invention may export models created in one modeling environment into the neutral data format. The neutral data format may subsequently be imported into other modeling environments in which new models are generated using the information contained in the neutral data format. The present invention also provides animation of the newly generated models by animation clients via open animation interfaces that support multiple animation clients at a simultaneous time.
US07783454B2
A portable apparatus (10) providing both substantially automated performance monitoring and audio entertainment features. In a preferred embodiment the apparatus (10) broadly comprises a portable housing (12); an attachment mechanism (14); a GPS component (16); a heart rate monitor component (17); an audio component (18); a user interface (20); a processor (26); and a power supply (30). The housing (12) may include a headset (1112a) wherein the GPS component (16) is located, and a second housing component (1112b) wherein the processor (26) is located, wherein the GPS component (16) communicates with the processor (26) in a wireless manner. The apparatus (10) is adapted to determine a number of laps or a distance, to provide an elapsed time, and to determine a speed.
US07783453B2
The present invention provides a method, system and computer program product for rapidly determining a resultant in relation to a plurality of predetermined performance characteristics using a method for determining test values in exponential and binary processes which are sequentially and comparatively assessed in relation to one or more maximum performance constraints (MPC) of a set of predetermined performance characteristics.
US07783451B2
First and second devices (7, 8) are configured to transmit and receive signals wirelessly and have first and second clocks respectively for determining signal transmission and arrival times. The first device transmits first and second signals (9, 10) and the second device transmits a third signal (11). By introducing a delay into the first signal, a thief may be able to fool the devices into thinking that they are closer than they really are. To help identify if a delay has been introduced into the first signal, the first device calculates a ratio of clock rates for the first and second clocks and determines whether the calculated ratio falls within a predefined range.
US07783446B2
A measuring system includes a piezoelectric sensor, two or more charge amplifiers that are provided with different amplification settings and one respective output, and a signal splitter which is disposed between the sensor and the amplifiers. A charge signal received by the piezoelectric sensor is subdivided into two or more partial signals on the signal splitter during a measurement, and each of two or more partial signals is fed to one of the charge amplifiers, is processed therein, and is finally fed to the outputs. The signal splitter preferably encompasses two or more capacitors. The inventive measuring system is used above all for measuring forces, pressures, extensions/expansions, moments, or accelerations.
US07783442B2
A method of calibrating glucose monitor data includes collecting the glucose monitor data over a period of time at predetermined intervals, obtaining reference glucose values from a reference source that temporally correspond with the glucose monitor data obtained at the predetermined intervals, calculating the calibration characteristics using the reference glucose values and corresponding glucose monitor data to regress the obtained glucose monitor data, and calibrating the obtained glucose monitor data using the calibration characteristics. In additional embodiments, calculation of the calibration characteristics includes linear regression and, in particular embodiments, least squares linear regression. Alternatively, calculation of the calibration characteristics includes non-linear regression. Data integrity may be verified and the data may be filtered.
US07783439B2
A signal generator device for generating at least one periodic signal for use in a data eye scan system. The signal generator comprises a clock input, at least one output and at least one signal generator coupled with the clock input and with the output. The signal generator is at least one token ring with a predetermined number of positions and is operable to propagate at least one token in the ring by moving the token from its current position to a following position dependent on a clock signal from the clock input. The signal generator further comprises a predetermined number of signal value units that each represent a respective predetermined signal value of a predetermined signal waveform and are operable to provide the signal value at an output of the signal generator dependent on a current position of the at least one token in the token ring.
US07783436B2
Some metallurgical furnaces have a tapblock that is blocked during operation of the furnace. The tapblock may be opened by lancing, drilling, tapping or by other methods to release metal from the furnace. By monitoring acoustic emissions during the opening process, feedback may be provided to improve the opening process and to avoid excessive damage to the tapblock, the cooling elements, a refractory lining of the tapblock or other elements of the metallurgical furnace.
US07783434B2
Mass flow meter having at least one measurement tube, through which mass flows, as an oscillation body which can be set in mechanical oscillation by means of an excitation unit, the oscillation behavior of which varying as a function of the mass flow can be recorded via at least one oscillation sensor in order to determine the mass flow, wherein in order to eliminate noise signals from the measurement voltage (sen) recorded via the oscillation sensor computational technology means are provided for forming a complex conjugate spectrum (|sa1j|) from the spectrum of the excitation voltage (seD) as well as a vector product between this (|sa1j|) and the measurement voltage (sen) for the purpose of filtering, in order, by further computational technology means for inverse Fourier transformation, to obtain the signal relationship associated with the vector product between the excitation voltage (seD) and the measurement voltage (sen) so that the processed measurement voltage (sa1) resulting therefrom then predominantly comprises a useful signal component.
US07783430B2
A method and a system for evaluating results of differentiating genotype signals and noise signals when a DNA fragment containing a gene to be analyzed is amplified by PCR and detected by electrophoresis are provided.An outlier of genotyping results is detected based on the fact that, when using the same marker, the height ratio of a stutter peak to a true peak and the height ratio of a +A peak to a true peak are reproducible, and that a constant size value is obtained with the use of the same allele of the same marker. In addition, a waveform obtained in past processes with the use of the same marker or the same allele is obtained utilizing a database by focusing on reproducibility. Also, a database is extended so as to obtain improved evaluation ability in a manner such that appropriate waveform data from which an outlier is not obtained is additionally registered in a database.
US07783426B2
A driving support system for a vehicle being adaptable to both of a manual driving of which driving operation is under control of a driver and an automated driving of which automated driving operation is under one of a partial control and a full control of automation, the driving support system includes a detection function for detecting a surrounding condition of the vehicle and a traveling condition of the vehicle and an information provision function for providing driving support information based on the surrounding condition of the vehicle and the traveling condition of the vehicle detected by the detection means. The driving support information is provided by the information provision function when the conditions of the vehicle meet a predetermined criterion for information provision, and the information provision function uses different predetermined criterion for information provision in the manual driving and in the automated driving respectively.
US07783421B2
A navigation device includes a navigation information storage unit in which navigation information, including the user-provided data, is stored; and a human machine interface unit that outputs the user-provided data and navigation information other than the user-provided data separately on an output device, that displays a warning message, read from the navigation information storage unit, and a screen prompting for an input for selecting whether to perform navigation processing based on the user-provided data when an instruction for performing navigation processing based on the user-provided data is input from an input device, and that causes a control unit, which performs navigation processing, to perform navigation processing based on the user-provided data when an instruction for performing navigation processing based on the user-provided data is input from the input device. In this way, a navigation system where user-provided data and official data are reliably combined can be provided.
US07783420B2
A route guidance systems, methods, and programs detect a current position of a vehicle and search for a route to a destination based on the vehicle position. The systems, methods, and programs set a recommended travel lane based on the searched route and determine whether the vehicle is in a particular lane, the determination based on image data of lane demarcation lines, the image data obtained by a camera attached to the vehicle. When the particular lane cannot be determined, the systems, methods, and programs predict the lane in which the vehicle is driving based on the image data and execute lane guidance based on the predicted driving lane.
US07783409B2
A model-based estimation of mass airflow is provided which provides an accurate estimation of mass airflow without introducing undesirable time delays characteristic of filtered mass airflow signals.
US07783405B2
There is provided a tire ground contact pattern specifying method and an apparatus thereof for specifying a tire ground contact pattern usable to perform the stable control of a running vehicle. Using a sensor unit 100 mounted in each tire 2 of a vehicle 1, accelerations generated in X, Y and Z directions are sensed and at the same time, a low frequency noise component and high frequency noise component added to the Z axis direction acceleration signal are extracted. Digital values being the sensing result are transmitted as digital information to a monitor device 200 by radio wave. The monitor device 200 compares many pieces of tire ground contact pattern information preliminarily stored with the digital information to thereby specify a tire ground contact pattern. A stability control unit 700 performs, based on the acceleration values and the information on tire ground contact pattern obtained, the correction control of driving of a sub-throttle actuator 412 or a brake drive actuator 640.
US07783396B2
In a conventional hybrid scheme used to mount a rechargeable battery in a motor vehicle, store into the battery the electric power that has been obtained via a regenerative brake, and utilize the power during acceleration of the vehicle, when a temperature rise of the battery due to charging or discharging causes a temperature of the battery to stay outside a defined range, it has been absolutely necessary to stop the battery charge or discharge, and fuel efficiency has decreased. This invention predicts a charge level and temperature of a rechargeable battery from the cruising input/output power requirements calculated from route information and historical records of cruising, prevents a stoppage of the battery by calculating chronological engine output and brake control data for the temperature to stay within a defined range, and hence improves fuel efficiency.
US07783395B2
A control system for lift-generating unit, the control system comprising: detector unit for detecting at least one parameter from which stall may be calculated; scaling unit for determining a scale factor dependent on the or each detected parameter; and multiplier unit for multiplying an incoming lift demand signal by the scale factor to provide an outgoing lift demand signal.
US07783381B2
According to an embodiment, information about a product is communicated to at least one customer of a vending machine. It is determined whether to dispense a product from the vending machine, and the product is dispensed from the vending machine.
US07783380B2
An apparatus for the dispensing of product is provided. The apparatus may include a dispenser sensor unit in communication with a dispenser that is configured for the dispensing of product. The dispenser sensor unit may be configured for detecting information about the product and for varying a dispensing parameter of the dispenser. A data communications unit in communication with the dispenser sensor unit may also be provided and may be configured for receiving information from the dispenser sensor unit. A washroom monitoring station in communication with the data communications unit may also be present and may be configured for receiving information from the data communications unit. The dispenser sensor unit may be configured for receiving a communication so as to vary a dispensing parameter of the dispenser.
US07783369B2
A remote maintenance system 1 is provided with a linear motor apparatus 2, a motor driver 3 for controlling a motor of the linear motion apparatus 2, and a user terminal 4. The motor driver 3 includes a memory which stores parameters relating to motor control. The user terminal 4 acquires the parameters from the motor driver 3, and sends the parameters to a maintenance server 5. Then, the user terminal 4 receives the parameters adjusted by the maintenance servers from the maintenance server 5, and writes the parameter into the memory of the motor driver 3. Thus, the parameters of the linear motion apparatus can be adjusted from remote locations at a high precision.
US07783362B2
Methods of using unidirectionally propagating action potentials (UPAPs) for vagus nerve stimulation and for certain disorders are provided. Stimulators capable of creating such UPAPs include, but are not limited to, miniature implantable stimulators (i.e., microstimulators), possibly with programmably configurable electrodes.
US07783361B2
A therapeutic heating pad which is not hot to the touch provides substantial infrared radiation to a user. Accordingly it can be used for extended periods without feeling uncomfortable to the skin, while imparting deep therapeutic heat to the user. The heating pad is comprised of a radiant heat generating layer having a plane surface comprising means for radiating heat evenly from its surface, a pair of flexible electrically insulating and radiation permeable layers located adjacent and covering opposite sides of the layer, a thermal insulation layer disposed against and covering one of the electrically insulating layers, and a sealed radiation permeable envelope enclosing the entire heater. Preferably the flexible heat generating layer is comprised of a fiberglass material impregnated with a resistive material, which material provides a surface temperature, when current is conducted therethrough, which is no greater than about 54 degrees Celsius. Current limiting thermostats are provided to prevent energy and temperature spikes in the event that any of the electrical components are creased or bent.
US07783360B2
A device for sensing and communicating nerve cell endings and neural signals, the device comprising: at least one neural bridge device; at least one neural bridge switch, wherein each neural bridge switch is an implanted integrated circuit and is connected to at least one neural bridge device; at least one neural bridge gateway; at least one communication means in communication with at least one neural bridge gateway and at least one neural bridge switch; at least one sensory interface integrated circuit in communication with at least one neural bridge switch; at least one transducer in communication with at least one sensory interface integrated circuit; and at least one attachment means in communication with at least one transducer.
US07783356B2
This document discusses, among other things, methods and systems for facilitating automated device programming at changeout. A method comprises receiving, from a first device, physiological data at a temporary storage device; and processing the received physiological data, wherein the processing includes determining if a first signal processing function was used by the first device and substantially offsetting the first signal processing function if the first signal processing function was used by the first device; and processing the resultant physiological data to be compatible with a second device. The method further comprising providing the processed resultant physiological data to the second device.
US07783350B2
An atrial based pacing protocol promotes intrinsic conduction. An entire cardiac cycle is monitored for ventricular activity and permitted to lapse with ventricular activity. Ventricular pacing is available in a cardiac cycle immediately subsequent to such a skipped beat. When monitoring for intrinsic ventricular events, an event is expected within a given window. If no such event is detected, the cardiac cycle in truncated, leading to a shorter cycle that is devoid of ventricular activity. The subsequent cycle has a high likelihood of a ventricular sensed event and a greater than normal AV interval is provided prior to pacing.
US07783344B2
Systems and techniques for monitoring hydration. In one implementation, a method includes measuring an electrical impedance of a region of a subject to generate an impedance measurement result, and wirelessly transmitting the data to a remote apparatus. The probe with which impedance is measured may take the form of a patch adhesively secured to the subject.
US07783339B2
Method and system for real-time digital filtering for electrophysiological and hemodynamic amplifers
The present invention includes a method and system for real-time digital filtering for electrophysiological and hemodynamic amplifiers. The invention replaces the analog circuits currently used for signal filtering and conditioning in such systems with digital filters that may be implemented in a software application. The method and system includes digitizing the analog signal collected from the patient prior to performing the signal filtering and conditioning. The method and system also includes removing stimulus artifacts, as well as performing sample rate conversion and scaling on the digital signal. The processed digital signals may be used, displayed, saved and converted to analog signal thru digital-to-analog conversion.
US07783338B2
An apparatus and method to perform therapeutic treatment and diagnosis of a patient's vasculature through the use of an intravascular device having an optical fiber disposed therein. In an embodiment, the apparatus includes an intravascular device to perform a therapeutic treatment and at least one optical fiber disposed through the intravascular device. The optical fiber is configured to provide diagnostic information before, during, and after the therapeutic treatment. In an embodiment, diagnostic information includes vessel and blood characteristics such as hemodynamic characteristics, hematological parameters related to blood and blood components, and thermal parameters of the vasculature.
US07783336B2
A marking device for identifying a subcutaneous biopsy cavity having a first nonabsorbable marker element detectable by a first imaging modality and a second nonabsorbable marker element detectable by a second imaging modality but not detectable by the first imaging modality.
US07783332B2
A method for determining the quantity of an analyte in a fluid is described along with various components of an apparatus designed to carry out the method. The method involves habituating a patient's eye to one or more colors, measuring the recovery time, and correlating the recovery time to the quantity of the analyte. A reproducible, objective, non-attentiveness-dependant test for assessing analyte levels is further disclosed. To this end, a device that measures saccadic eye movements may be used to assess the return of vision to the prehabituated state. The method and apparatus are particularly suited for noninvasively measuring blood glucose levels.
US07783330B2
A host computer communicates with field devices over a wireless network that includes a gateway and a plurality of wireless nodes. At least one of the field devices is associated with each wireless node, and each field device has a unique field device address. The host computer sends control messages to field devices using their field device addresses. The gateway translates the field device address of a control message to a wireless address of the wireless node with which the field device is associated. The gateway sends a wireless message over the network to the wireless node at the wireless address. The message contains the field device address so that, when the wireless message is received and opened, the control message from the host computer can be routed to the intended field device based upon the field device address.
US07783320B2
A radio base station notifies a maximum allowable transmission rate of uplink user data to a mobile station by using a common transmission rate control channel. The mobile station increases the transmission rate of uplink user data up to the maximum allowable transmission rate by a predetermined step. When a predetermined condition is satisfied, the mobile station requests the radio base station to transmit a dedicated transmission rate control channel. The mobile station determines the transmission rate of uplink user data based on the dedicated transmission rate control channel transmitted from the radio base station.
US07783319B2
The present invention relates to a method for adjusting forward transmission power control threshold of a terminal in a mobile communication system, including the following steps of setting in advance at a base station side a forward pilot threshold and a lower bound, an upper bound of a forward transmission power control threshold as well as adjustment ranges of said lower bound and upper bound; obtaining the current forward pilot energy measured and reported by the terminal; judging whether the forward pilot energy exceeds said forward pilot threshold; and adjusting the forward transmission power control threshold of the terminal. In the invention, the forward pilot energy reported by the terminal is judged and adjusted through the pre-set parameters above, so as to dynamically adjust the forward transmission power control threshold of the terminal in the sector, reduce call drop rate, and promote the communication quality of a CDMA mobile communication system.
US07783318B2
A system and method for amplifying cellular signals while maintaining the output power of the amplifier below a prescribed power limit. The network amplifier system may include a variable gain module having an input configured to receive an uplink signal from a handset and configured to apply an amplification factor to the uplink signal to generate an adjusted uplink signal. A detector is used for detecting a level of the uplink signal. A gain control module is configured to control the amplification factor in order to limit the output of the variable gain module to ensure that the level of the adjusted uplink signal does not exceed a predetermined limit. An antenna is coupled to the output of the variable gain module and is configured to transmit the adjusted uplink signal to a base station.
US07783314B2
In a system and method for providing Push To Talk (PTT) service according to a state of the user, when a PTT terminal user is absent, in conference or busy, the PTT system converts the PTT voice message directed to the PTT terminal to a text message, and displays it on a screen of another terminal or the PTT terminal. As a result, the user can immediately check the PTT message when he/she is in absence or conference state, and is busy without communication interference.
US07783310B2
Melting information of a client device is described. The device melting includes receiving a melt message at an inbox of a client device. A source of the melt message is authenticated using identification information of the melt message. The client device automatically deletes client state information of the client device in response to authenticating the source of the melt message.
US07783308B2
A mobile device comprises a geographic sensor for determining an approximate location of the mobile device, a memory for storing information, and a microprocessor for controlling the device and adapted for receiving data from the geographic sensor and determining whether the mobile device is located in a particular zone. In another embodiment, the mobile device comprises a device sensor for sensing at least one additional mobile device within a predefined area, a memory for storing information, and a microprocessor for controlling the device and adapted for receiving data from the device sensor and determining whether predetermined conditions, regarding additional mobile devices within a predefined area, are met. This Abstract is provided to comply with rules requiring an Abstract that allows a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain subject matter of the technical disclosure. This Abstract is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. 37 CFR 1.72(b).
US07783303B1
Systems and methods for locating wireless devices in a wireless network. A diagnostic client on a wireless device generates timing data based on clock data received from sectors of towers communicating with the device. The timing data can be used to generate probability bands that approximate the location of the device in the wireless network. The broadcast regions of the sectors and/or the probability bands can also be used to generate the probable location of a wireless device in a wireless network. The diagnostic data can then be binned in a grid based on the approximate location of the wireless device. The statistical contributions of multiple devices to the grid can be used to characterize the performance of the wireless network.
US07783297B2
A location system comprises a communication terminal for transmitting a location request specifying a target mobile terminal and a type of location information, and a location network. In response to the location request, the location network produces current location information of the target mobile terminal if the type of location information of the received request specifies current location information and transmits the current location information to the communication terminal and stores the last known location information in a memory as last known location information of the target mobile terminal. If the type of location information specifies last known location information, stored last known location information of the target mobile terminal is copied from the memory and transmitted to the communication terminal if the location request is verified by a privacy check and if the stored information is reusable.
US07783292B2
Apparatus, methods and computer program products are provided that enable enhanced resource allocation for a wireless mesh network. A method includes: in response to receiving a resource request in a wireless mesh network, allocating, by a first node, at least one dedicated resource for communication with a second node; reserving at least one shared resource for use in conjunction with communications with the first node; and transmitting to the second node information corresponding to the allocated at least one dedicated resource and the reserved at least one shared resource.
US07783289B2
A mobile communication system is described. The system has an infrastructure that includes base stations and has mobile stations, a mobile terminal and a mobile controller. Each mobile station is operable to communicate with one of the base stations. The mobile terminal is coupled to first and second mobile stations to provide a communication link to at least one of the base stations. The mobile controller sends instruction messages to the mobile stations regarding connectivity with the base stations. The mobile terminal, the mobile controller and the first and second mobile stations are carried on a moving object. The mobile controller makes decisions and issues instructions to the mobile stations relating to the base station by which they should each be served with to maintain a communication link between the mobile terminal and a serving base station via at least one of the mobile stations.
US07783279B2
The last known location and last time of location update can be stored for each of a set of mobile devices in device-specific records. A request for a specific mobile device can be received from a location services application. The last time of location update for the specific mobile device can be checked against a current time. If the last update time is current enough, the last known location for the device can be conveyed to the location services application. Information can then be presented on the device that is specific to its last known location.
US07783273B2
The receiver, which enables rejection of image signals with higher accuracy over wider frequency band, can be provided as a low IF receiver by inputting a calibration signal of frequency fi (1≦i≦N) before reception of signals and determining the frequency response fa(z) to fd(z) of a calibrating filter in a filter mismatch calibrating circuit (FIL_CAL) 195 to make zero amplitude and phase mismatches between the I component and Q component of the quadrature demodulation signal at the frequency fIFi.
US07783268B2
A transmitter and a transmitting method of a wireless communication system are provided. The transmitter transmits RF signals using an outphasing scheme of converting one analog IF NC-EMS into two analog C-EMSs. In the transmitter, a baseband processor generates a baseband digital modulated I-signal and a baseband digital modulated Q-signal. An IF processor up-converts the baseband digital modulated I-signal and the baseband digital modulated Q-signal to generate one digital IF NC-EMS. A signal component separator separates the digital IF NC-EMS into a first digital IF C-EMS and a second digital IF C-EMS. An RF processor up-converts the first digital IF C-EMS and the second digital IF C-EMS to generate a first analog RF C-EMS and a second analog RF C-EMS. A power amplifier amplifies powers of the first and second analog RF C-EMSs. An RF combiner combines the first and second analog RF C-EMSs having the amplified powers to generate one combined analog RF C-EMS.
US07783258B2
The invention is directed to a method of synchronising transmission between two nodes in a wireless network. The method comprises the steps of obtaining an expected interference profile for each node; and agreeing a synchronised transmission schedule between the nodes, where the expected interference profile of each node meets predetermined criteria.
US07783242B2
An image forming apparatus has a first recording mode of outputting the recording material without passing thru the glossiness applying device after fixing and a second recording mode using the glossiness applying device, and then outputting the recording material. In the latter recording mode (B), when a void ratio G of toner in the toner image not yet subjected to the glossing process by the glossiness applying device is defined by a thickness t1 of a toner layer on the recording material after fixing and before entering the glossiness applying device, and a thickness t2 of a toner layer on the recording material after passing through the glossiness applying device, satisfies the formula: G=100×(t1-t2)/t1. In the recording mode (B), fixing conditions for the fixing device and the glossiness applying device are respectively set so that the void ratio of toner satisfies a formula 15≦G≦60.
US07783226B2
An image forming apparatus includes a process unit which has an image carrier and a scanner unit which exposes the image carrier to light, a pair of sheet metal frames which support and position the process unit and the scanner unit, and a pair of resin frames which support at least one module of the image forming apparatus other than the process unit and the scanner unit.
US07783225B2
An image forming apparatus comprising a pair of stationary side walls arranged in an image forming apparatus body and a plurality of photosensitive drum units supported between the stationary side walls. Each photosensitive drum unit comprises a drum-holding frame for holding a photosensitive drum, a head-holding frame for holding an LED head, and a pressing means for pressing the head-holding frame from one side toward the other side in the axial direction of the photosensitive drum.
US07783224B2
An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive body to be developed by a conductive toner, a charger which charges a surface of the photosensitive body with a surface potential, a power supply which supplies one of a normal charging power to perform a normal charging operation and a compensation charging power, having a different absolute value than the normal charging power and having the same polarity as the normal charging power, to the charger, and a controller which controls the power supply to supply the normal charging power and the compensation charging power to the charger, respectively, before and after a charging time at which a rear end contact surface of the photosensitive body contacting a rear end of a printing medium is charged by the charger.
US07783209B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image carrying member, a development unit, a first driving unit, a second driving unit, and a cleaning blade. The image carrying member forms a latent image thereon. The development unit develops the latent image formed on the image carrying member. The first driving unit drives the image carrying member. The second driving unit drives the development unit. The cleaning blade, contactable against the image carrying member, removes materials including toner remaining on the image carrying member. When an agent-empty development unit is filled with a developing agent, the second driving unit is activated to start a driving of the development unit, and the first driving unit is activated to start a driving of the image carrying member after starting a developing agent filling operation to the development unit.
US07783206B2
The present invention provides a system and method for multi-rate, high-sensitivity CDR, including a variable/adjustable decision threshold, RF input clock recovery, and OE conversion feature. The system includes an optical input connector, CDR circuit, decision threshold circuit, internal power supply, OE converter, external electrical output, and multiple clock outputs. The system is assembled in a single, stand-alone unit. The system includes an OC-192 data output, and OC-192 (9.953-10.709 GHz) and ¼ OC-48 (2.488-2.677 GHz) clock outputs. The decision threshold level is adjustable and optimized by a system user. The system is also used in combination with a digital communications analyzer. A recovered clock of the CDR circuit provides trigger for the DCA. The system includes an electrical input connector. Optionally, the system triggers directly from an RF electrical input in substitution of an optical input. The system is also used to convert an optical signal to an electrical signal, bypassing the CDR circuit.
US07783205B1
A learning remote “learns” both a digital code carried by an infrared operational signal as well as a timing characteristic (for example, time period) of a carrier used to modulate the operational signal. When the photodiode of the learning remote is close to the transmitter of the remote to be learned from, a low frequency saturation current is superimposed on the intelligence signal. Rather than using a fixed reference voltage to detect when the carrier component of the intelligence signal transitions, an adaptive reference voltage (VAR) is used. A comparator compares a photocurrent voltage to VAR. Because VAR is maintained between the envelope of positive peaks and the envelope of negative peaks of the photocurrent voltage despite changes in the low frequency current, the comparator detects each transition of the carrier component. A microcontroller timer determines the time between transitions output by the comparator and thereby determines the timing characteristic.
US07783200B2
A method, core node, ingress edge node, and egress edge node for matching a bit rate of data input into an optical burst switching network with that of data output from the optical burst switching network are provided. The method includes calculating a difference between a frequency of optical data received on a node and a natural frequency of the node; including the calculated difference into control information; and transmitting the control information. The core node includes a calculator to calculate a difference between frequency of optical data and the natural frequency of the optical data; and a controller to add the difference and a difference included in control information, and output the added difference. The ingress edge node includes a data processor; and a controller. The egress edge node includes an ingress edge node clock recovery phase lock loop; a de-mapper; and a storage unit.
US07783199B2
The present invention relates to the design and operation of a frequency selective electrooptic source. In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, the electrooptic source comprises an optical signal generator, optical circuitry, and at least one optical/electrical converter wherein the optical signal generator comprises a plurality of optical outputs characterized by distinct output frequencies and the optical circuitry is configured to permit the selection and combination of different ones of the distinct-frequency optical outputs to generate a modulated optical signal, which is converted to a millimeter or sub-millimeter wave. Additional embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
US07783193B2
Identification of optical channels in wavelength division multiplex (WDM) optical networks may be confounded by unwanted noise tones interfering with pilot/dither tones used for identifying optical channels. The invention describes a method of selecting pilot/dither tones that are selectively restricted to avoid allocating dither/pilot tone frequencies that appear as noise tones along the path of an optical channel in the optical network.
US07783192B2
A picture image providing method and a picture-taking device using the method are provided. The picture-taking device includes: a picture-taking module generating a picture image by taking a picture of a photography object via a camera; a transmission location management module managing a target image for identifying the photography object included in the picture image, and transmission location information for transmitting the picture image, in correspondence to the target image; an area selection module selecting an area on the picture image corresponding to the target image; an image identification module identifying the target image corresponding to the photography object, included in the picture image, using the target image and the selected area on the picture image; and a picture image transmission module identifying the transmission location information corresponding to the identified target image, and transmitting the picture image to a location corresponding to the transmission location information.
US07783185B2
An image sensor includes imaging pixels that convert an image formed via an optical system to image signals and a first focus detection pixel group and a second focus detection pixel group respectively made up with an array of first focus detection pixels and an array of second focus detection pixels, with the first focus detection pixels and the second focus detection pixels used to receive an image light flux via the optical system to detect a focus adjustment state at the optical system through a pupil division-type method. An image detection pitch of the first focus detection pixel group and an image detection pitch of the second focus detection pixel group are different from each other.
US07783183B2
Systems and methods for reducing the visibility of rain in acquired images are provided. One or more inputs relating the scene desired to be acquired by the user are used to retrieve camera settings that will reduce the visibility of rain in acquired images. Additionally, features relating to the scene may be automatically determined and used alone, or in combination with user inputs, to retrieve camera settings. The acquired images may be part of a video. Another feature of the invention is its use as a rain gauge. The camera settings are adjusted to enhance the visibility of rain, then one or more images are acquired and analyzed for the amount and size of raindrops. From this analysis the rain rate can be determined.
US07783179B2
An image blur correction apparatus includes a correction lens for correcting image blurs in a lens system, a moving frame for holding the correction lens, a support frame for movably supporting the moving frame through a move guide on a plane orthogonal to an optical axis of the correction lens, a first electric actuator for generating a first force to move the moving frame in a first direction orthogonal to the optical axis of the correction lens, a second electric actuator for generating a second force to move the moving frame in a second direction which is a direction orthogonal to the optical axis of the correction lens and is also orthogonal to the first direction, and an operation limit mechanism for limiting the moving frame from moving in the first direction and the second direction, and preventing the moving frame from rotating in the limit position.
US07783174B2
This application discloses a system for recording medical image data for production on a portable digital recording medium such as CDs and DVDs. This system includes a receiving module, a processing module and an output module, with viewing program for viewing medical image data stored on the portable digital recording medium. It also discloses a method of storing medical image data on a portable digital recording medium, including the steps of receiving the medical image data, processing the data and storing the data on the portable digital recording medium, with a viewing program for viewing medical image data stored on the portable digital recording medium. It further discloses a method of selecting medical image data for recording on a portable digital recording medium, including the steps of connecting a browsing terminal to a computer database that stores the medical image data, selecting a first set of the medical image data from the computer database, and recording the selected first set of medical image data on the portable digital medium, with a viewing program for viewing the medical image data stored on the portable digital recording medium. It also discloses the method and system of retrieving medical image data that are related to the received/selected original medical image data, and recording the original and related medical image data on a portable digital recording medium.
US07783171B2
An audio/video storage device using a hard disk speeds up the start of reproduction of an audio/video file and reduces power consumption and a noise level. A data recording/reproducing system of the present invention has a hard-disk drive and a flash memory device. When an audio/video file is recorded, the entirety of the file is stored into the hard-disk drive and a starting section of the file is stored into the flash memory device. When the file is reproduced, the reproduction is started from the starting section of the file that was stored into the flash memory device, and the remaining sections that follow the starting section are reproduced from an internal hard disk of the hard-disk drive.
US07783170B2
An optical disc and a method and apparatus for recording digital data streams and management information on the disc, are provided. The method includes recording a digital data stream including at least one predetermined-sized unit, each unit carrying header information and at least one packet, the header information being represented in at least one header entry, selectively appending an additional header entry based on whether a number of the at least one header entry corresponds to a number of the at least one packet, and recording an indication information that indicates whether or not the additional header entry is appended.
US07783167B2
Access point pictures designated as randomly accessible positions are I pictures or P pictures. Information indicating the decoding sequence (I1, P1, B1, B2, B3, B4, P2, . . . ) of pictures functioning as access points and attribute information (picture_type) indicating whether a picture functions as an access point or is necessary for decoding of the access point following a given access point are recorded on the video information recording medium. Random access is possible even if the GOP interval is lengthened.
US07783165B2
An input signal is quantized into a quantization-resultant signal. The quantization-resultant signal is compressed into a compression-resultant signal. The compression-resultant signal is formatted into a formatting-resultant signal corresponding to a predetermined format for a digital recording disc. The formatting-resultant signal includes segments corresponding to user data areas prescribed in the predetermined format. The compression-resultant signal is placed in the segments of the formatting-resultant signal. The formatting-resultant signal is encoded into an encoding-resultant signal of a CD format. The encoding-resultant signal is recorded on a recording medium.
US07783159B2
The recording medium includes at least one data area storing more than one clip of video data for at least one segment of a title, and each clip of video data is associated with a different reproduction path of the segment.
US07783156B2
This invention relates on a method and a system for reading a set of recorded information that is applicable to a reading system making it possible to read sequential information. In a first step, the user marks a first information sequence currently being read triggered by a first interrupt by actuating a device for triggering a special processing mode. This special mode can be trigger by a fast movement key, this mode allows reading a second information sequence. In a second step, the user can rewind to the first information sequence interrupted and marked during the previous marking step. This rewind step is triggered during the reproduction of the second sequence when the user actuates a rewind device. The invention is applicable to the reproduction by a user of recorded information and more particularly to the displaying of an audiovisual work.
US07783153B2
A method and apparatus for reproducing multimedia data. The method and apparatus for reproducing multimedia data receives externally-provided multimedia data, separates video data, audio data, and synchronization data from the received multimedia data, and extracts a synchronization signal from the synchronization data. The method and apparatus further synchronizes an operation of printing and reproducing an image corresponding to the video data and an operation of reproducing sound corresponding to the audio data with each other using the extracted synchronization signal and performing the operations.
US07783148B2
A fiber-optic apparatus for receiving emitted radiation from a diode laser having at least one diode laser bar with a multiplicity of emitters which are arranged in at least one row alongside one another in the direction of their longitudinal axis. The fiber-optic apparatus has at least one optical fiber bundle that is associated with the diode laser bar and into which the laser beam is injected. Each emitter has a multiplicity of associated optical fibers. The optical fibers are hot-fused to one another under pressure and without regulation on the input side in order to form at least one fiber wedge with an inlet surface. The emitters of the diode laser bar are directly associated with at least one inlet surface in order to completely receive the laser light emitted from the diode laser bar.
US07783137B2
An image formation apparatus detects personal information, (a name, a contact address or the like) from image data obtained by scanning a document. Personal information stored in a database, or DB personal information, associated with an and retrieved personal information have a difference and the DB personal information is information later than the personal information detected from the image data then the personal information in the image data is modified with the retrieved DB personal information.
US07783126B2
A visual processing device that achieves gradation processing and further enhances a visual effect. The visual processing device 1 performs gradation processing for each image region of an input signal IS, and includes an image partitioning portion 2, a gradation transformation curve derivation portion 10, and a gradation processing portion 5. The image partitioning portion 2 and the gradation transformation curve derivation portion 10 use a brightness histogram Hm of a wide area image region Em to create a gradation transformation curve Cm of an image region Pm. The gradation processing portion 5 performs gradation processing of the image region Pm based on the derived gradation transformation curve Cm.
US07783122B2
A method of detecting image quality defects includes providing an electronic image including electronic image data, rendering an image based on the electronic image data, capturing the rendered image, the captured image including captured image data, deriving one-dimensional profiles from the captured image data, each of the captured one-dimensional profiles being derived from a set of image data in the same direction, optionally, deriving reference one-dimensional profiles from the electronic image data and generating a difference profile from the reference and captured one-dimensional profiles, and evaluating at least one of the captured one-dimensional profiles and reference one-dimensional profiles for image quality defects.
US07783121B1
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for applying a filter to an image whose pixel values can span a large range of values. During operation the system receives an image to which the filter is to be applied. The system then selects a first region within the image which is associated with a first pixel. Next, the system generates a first histogram using pixels within the first region whose values are within a first range of pixel values. Next, the system determines a new value for the first pixel using the first histogram. The system then selects a second region within the image which is associated with a second pixel. Next, the system determines if the second pixel value is within a second range of pixel values. If the second pixel value is within the second range of pixel values, the system determines a non-overlapping region between the first region and the second region. The system then generates a second histogram using the first histogram and pixel values in the non-overlapping region. Next, the system determines a new value for the second pixel using the second histogram.
US07783117B2
Disclosed are embodiments of systems and methods to generate background and foreground images for a document, which enables high-quality and high-ratio document compression. In embodiments, high-accuracy layer processing enables text enhancement, paper color removal, and many other advanced image analysis and processing. Embodiments of the systems support several operation modes and its many parameters, such as layer compression ratios, image segmentation, and modulized image processing, may be adjusted to generate optimal compressed files for different purposes.
US07783116B2
A computer system programmed to process a large data set includes means for analysing the data set. The means for analysing the data set typically comprises a means for finite element analysis. The computer system also includes means for applying a data compression technique to the analysed data set such that the compressed analysed data set has high fidelity in regions of interest and has lower fidelity in regions of lesser interest. The data compression technique comprises the use of a wavelet compression technique. The computer system comprises a high specification server and a local workstation. This compressed analysed data set is easily managed by the local workstation to produce different cross-sectional displays without reusing the high capability server. The analysed data set for example comprises a 4D data set of a fan blade containment analysis of a casing.
US07783114B2
Provided are a method, system, and computer readable medium for training and using classification components on multiple processing units. A plurality of processing units each has a memory including one of a plurality of subsets of a set of data points. At least two of the processing units have different subsets of data points. A plurality of classification components are executed by the processing units. Classification components executing at the processing units are trained, wherein each classification component is trained with the subset of data points in the memory of the processing unit that is executing the classification component. One of the classification components is transferred to an additional processing unit of the processing units to train the transferred classification component using the subset of data points in the memory at the additional processing unit in response to training the classification component with the subset of data points.
US07783112B2
A method of measurement of proximity of a second contour to a first contour, comprises for each point of the first contour, a step of association with a point of the second contour determined as the closest, and a step of pairing each point of the second contour with one or zero points of the first contour, by determining the point of the first contour which is closest from among the set of points of the first contour that are associated with said point of the second contour.A method of automatic identification of targets applies this proximity measurement process to determine the measure of proximity of a template contour, applied as second contour, to an image contour, applied as first contour.
US07783101B2
Methods and systems for determining dimensions of a structure that has a re-entrant profile are disclosed. A method includes imaging at least a portion of a top surface of the structure. Subsequently, a second portion of the structure is imaged from a plurality of perspectives. A third portion of the structure is also imaged from a plurality of perspectives. A dimension of a bottom portion of the structure is determined based on the imaging.
US07783100B2
An apparatus and method for inspecting and analyzing welded structures includes a laser for directing at least one beam of light at a weld bead to define at least one visible profile line; a camera directed at the weld bead for capturing an image of the at least one profile line and generating a usable image signal based on the image; and a preprogrammed microprocessor assembly configured for receiving the usable image signal and processing the signal as an image to determine a dimension of the weld bead defined along the at least one profile line and comparing the dimension of the weld bead with a predetermined dimension set point to determine the quality of the weld bead.
US07783094B2
The invention provides a system and method for computer-aided detection (“CAD”). The invention relates to computer-aided automatic detection of abnormalities in and analysis of medical images. Medical images are analyzed, to extract and identify a set of features in the image relevant to a diagnosis. The system computes an initial diagnosis based on the set of identified features and a diagnosis model, which are provided to a user for review and modification. A computed diagnosis is dynamically re-computed upon user modification of the set of identified features. Upon a user selecting a diagnosis based on system recommendation, a diagnosis report is generated reflecting features present in the medical image as validated by the user and the user selected diagnosis.
US07783090B2
The AC and/or PC landmarks are identified in a midsagittal MRI image by firstly identifying structures in the brain (specifically the fornix and/or brainstem) as groups of pixels in a radiological image which have an intensity in ranges defined by one or more thresholds and which obey predefined geometrical criteria. The thresholds are varied until the predefined geometrical criteria are met. Initial estimates of the position of the AC and/or PC are derived from the identified structures. These estimates can be improved in various ways, especially by making use of axial and/or corona/radiological images in planes including, and/or proximate to, the initial estimated position of the AC and/or PC.
US07783081B2
A method and device for verification of identity aboard an aircraft combines a device for biometric authentication with a surveillance device making it possible to control the conditions under which biometric authentication is performed. According to complementary stages of the method of the invention, a communication device can communicate information relating to the verification of identity and whereby a state of alert is activated if the information signals an unusual situation aboard the aircraft.
US07783079B2
A method of enhancing data. A trace may be determined from a target data point in a target frame and a respective data point in an adjacent frame. At least an approximate value of the target data point may be determined from the trace.
US07783074B2
An apparatus and method for steganalysis that enhances the ability to detect distortion introduced by data hiding. In embodiments of the invention, a pixel grayscale value in an image is predicted by using its neighboring grayscale values of neighboring pixels. Further, a prediction-error image is produced by subtracting the image from its predicted image. The prediction-error image may is employed to remove at least some variations in image data other than those associated with data hiding an thus, at least partially offsets variations from image aspects other than data hiding.
US07783071B2
An imaging apparatus includes an image data generating unit, a verification data generating unit, a first slot, a second slot, a first interface and a second interface. The image data generating unit generates image data. The verification data generating unit generates first verification data used to detect whether the image data is changed. A recording medium is inserted to the first slot.An image verification apparatus is inserted to the second slot. The first interface unit stores a first image file in the recording medium, the first image file including the image data and the first verification data. The second interface unit that transfers the first image file to the image verification apparatus. The image verification apparatus is capable of detecting, using the image data and the first verification data, whether the image data is changed.
US07783066B2
The invention relates to a method for fitting a hearing aid to the needs of a hearing aid user, the method comprising collecting statistical data characterising physical or psychological properties of environments in which use of the hearing aid is desired and utilising the statistical values for the adjustment of the signal processing in the hearing aid, such statistical data having influence even though they may have been collected prior to the wearer's first or current period of listening via the hearing aid. The invention further relates to a device for implementing the method.
US07783062B2
Disclosed is an automatic audio distortion control method and apparatus, wherein the automatic audio distortion control apparatus comprises an amplifier (6) and a feedback loop which has its both ends coupled to an input and an output of the amplifier (6), wherein said feedback loop has clipping distortion of signals outputted from the amplifier (6) as a control parameter for automatic control on the distortion of the amplifier (6). Once the outputted level gets close to a limit-value of speakers, the method and the apparatus will regulate power amplifier gain automatically, in order to control distortion, prevent damage to the speakers, and provide compatibility with high or low levels inputted from various audio sources.
US07783057B2
A music play control apparatus and method for a music player using at least one earphone function key are provided which are capable of performing a music play control operation of the music player using earphones. In the music play control apparatus and method, an external key input from left/right function keys installed on the earphones is scanned. If a key signal is input from either the left or right function key, a value of the input function key is recognized and a music play control operation is performed by a predetermined function depending on the recognized function key value.
US07783053B2
A level meter displaying method which is capable of changing the rate of change in the angle or position of an indicator in at least one particular input signal level range. A scale image obtained according to a function which nonlinearly varies with a signal level of the sound signal is displayed on a display. The signal level of the sound signal is converted into an indicator angle or indicator position of the level meter according to the function. A level image corresponding to the resulting indicator angle or indicator position is displayed on the display. A curve having at least two inflection points each of which is a boundary between a region where a rate of change of the indicator angle or the indicator position to be converted according to the function is larger, and a region where the indicator angle or the indicator position is smaller is generated by the function.
US07783051B2
A method for processing an audio signal, comprising: receiving a downmix signal, an object information, and a mix information; generating a multi-channel information including at least one gain modification factor using the object information and the mix information, wherein the gain modification factor corresponds to a time-subband-variant factor for controlling gain of the downmix signal is disclosed.
US07783047B2
A sound field reproduction apparatus generates sound field synthesizing parameters according to a relative positional relationship between the listener and the sound source and performs frequency conversion on sound data according to the relative positional relationship. A convolutional operation is conducted on the sound data that are subjected to the frequency conversion and the generated sound field synthesizing parameters in order to synthesize the sound of the sound source of each channel. The synthesized sound is subjected to wave front synthesis for the synthesized sound by using n-channel sound sources to reproduce a sound field in a predetermined area.
US07783038B2
A method for obscuring data and software including the steps of (A) generating code for performing a predefined operation using one or more sets of predefined data, (B) generating a first binary representation of the code and (C) mixing the one or more sets of predefined data into the binary representation of the code such that the one or more sets of predefined data and the code are substantially indistinct from each other.
US07783037B1
The present invention pertains to data security, and more particularly to the security of encrypted data that can be transmitted between computers and the like, as well as stored upon one or more computer systems. A technique is disclosed for efficiently implementing the Rijndael inverse cipher. In this manner, encrypted ciphertext can be efficiently decrypted or converted back into plaintext. Data throughput can be enhanced via pipelining while cost savings can be concurrently achieved as less wafer space and/or die area may be utilized. Adaptations may be made based upon a resulting complexity of implementing a particular design while satisfying a maximum throughput requirement.
US07783033B2
A converted telephone plug inserted into the first jack of a traditional, local telephony network breaks the normal connection to a public switched telephony network (PSTN) and reroutes signals to special telephony equipment for further connection to a modern access network. The advantages are that local analog telephones, can be used as interfaces also against the modern network and that installation becomes easy.
US07783022B1
An apparatus and method utilize information gathered by the telecommunication terminals that are part of the telecommunication conference to assist in the identification of the speaker at any point in time during a telecommunication conference.
US07783019B2
An approach provides fraud detection in support of data communication services. A threshold corresponding to a geographic location is set. The threshold corresponds to duration of a call supporting data communications. It is determined whether the call duration exceeds the threshold. A fraud alert is generated if the monitored call duration exceeds the threshold.
US07783014B1
A sending device exchanges handshake signals with a receiving device prior to the delivery of compressed digital audio data. The sending and receiving devices are remotely connected using a data network. In one embodiment of the present invention, the sending device sends an access code to the receiving device. The access code is an encrypted data of two components: a digital data associated with the sending device and a digital data associated with the receiving device. The receiving device decrypts the access code. The receiving device stores the compressed digital audio data in its memory if the decrypted access code contains the correct components.
US07783013B2
Methods and systems are provided to locate, route, and/or otherwise process an emergency communications signal from a VoIP communication device equipped with a location positioning system and an emergency communications computer software product. The software identifies an emergency communications address, activates the location positioning system, and communicates location coordinates and other emergency information with the emergency communications signal to a communications network.
US07782998B2
A plurality of projection images are acquired over an angular range during the slow rotation of a C-arm gantry having a source and detector. Phase-specific reconstructions are generated from the plurality of projections, wherein each phase-specific reconstruction is generated generally from projections acquired at or near the respective phase. In one embodiment, a plurality of motion estimates are generated based upon the phase-specific reconstructions. One or more motion-corrected reconstructions may be generated using the respective motion estimates and projections. The motion-corrected reconstructions may be associated to form motion-corrected volume renderings.
US07782997B2
CT scanners have a certain scan-field-of-view defined by the fan-angle of the system. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, object points outside the scan-field-of-view may be reconstructed on the basis of a system of linear equations which may be solved iteratively and with reasonable effort. Therefore, explicit regularization techniques may be applied to recover the unknown object function.
US07782972B2
An apparatus and method for selecting antennas in a MIMO multi-carrier system is provided to effectively select a receive antenna group with better signal detection capability, thereby enhancing system performance. The apparatus includes a channel estimator and an antenna selector. The channel estimator generates a channel matrix of each MIMO channel in response to each sub-carrier. The antenna selector generates a parameter of transmission capacity for each possible receive antenna group in response to each sub-carrier, and selects a receive antenna group with an optimal overall transmission capacity according to the parameter of transmission capacity.
US07782968B2
In the present invention, data generated from a source unit are distributed to at least one bandwidth; the data distributed to the respective bandwidths are encoded in order to perform an error correction; the encoded data are distributed to at least one antenna; a subcarrier is allocated to the data distributed to the respective antennas, and an inverse Fourier transform is performed; a short preamble and a first long preamble corresponding to the subcarrier are generated; a signal symbol is generated according to a data transmit mode; and a frame is generated by adding a second long preamble between the signal symbol and a data field for the purpose of estimating a channel of a subcarrier which is not used.
US07782965B2
There is provided a radio transmission device capable of improving the system throughput in multi-carrier communication. The device includes IQ separation units (20-1 to 20-K) for separating an I channel and a Q channel from the inputted symbol and inputting them into control units (22). The control units (22-1 to 22-K) reduce the power of the parity bit by reducing the amplitude of the channel corresponding to the parity bit among the I channel and Q channel inputted. IQ multiplexing units (24-1 to 24-K) multiplex the I channel and Q channel inputted from the control units (22-1 to 22-K) and return them to a symbol, which is inputted to an IFFT unit (26). The IFFT unit (26) subjects the symbol inputted from the IQ multiplexing units (24-1 to 24-K) to inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) and maps it to respective sub-carriers f1 to fK, thereby generating an OFDM symbol.
US07782963B2
A moving picture coding apparatus including an inter-pixel filter having the filters for filtering decoded image data so as to remove block distortion which is high frequency noise around block boundaries. The filters include a filter A114a, a filter B114b, a filter C114c, and a filter D114d; each having a different filtering strength. The coding apparatus also includes a filter processing control unit for determining a filtering strength of the inter-pixel filter.
US07782953B2
Both distortion rate and bit-rate can be considered together when selecting a lowest cost motion estimation signal. A motion estimation signal is generated for each of the candidate motion vectors and candidate mode information vectors for a macroblock. An estimated amount of encoding bits is determined for each of the candidate motion vectors, candidate mode information vectors, and quantized coefficients. A bit-rate is computed based on the estimated amount of encoding bits. In addition, a current macroblock is reconstructed with each of the candidate vectors, and distortion measured between each of the reconstructions and the current macroblock. A sum is computed for each distortion measurement and corresponding bit-rate. The lowest sum represents the lowest cost motion estimation signal.
US07782943B2
Methods include receiving a multi-view video stream including a random access picture including a random access slice referencing only a slice corresponding to a same time and a different view of the picture; obtaining identification information representing the stream including initialization information of a reference picture list for the slice; obtaining a random access flag indicating whether a picture is random access picture type; obtaining initialization information of a reference picture list for the slice from the stream based on the flag, the initialization information representing view relationships between several views and including view number information and view identification information; initializing the list using the view number and identification information; determining a prediction value of a macroblock in the picture based on the initialized list; and decoding the macroblock using the prediction value, the initialization information being obtained based on a value indicating decoding order between the views.
US07782938B2
Methods and apparatus for encoding image data to facilitate subsequent insertion of local image data. Also methods and apparatus for inserting image data, e.g., at local broadcast stations, without having to fully decode a received encoded bitstream. The encoding methods involve treating images to be encoded as a plurality of distinct, non-overlapping image regions or segments for encoding purposes. Image segments which are designated for use for local data insertion are not used as reference data for motion compensated prediction purposes when generating motion vectors to represent image areas, e.g., the area representing the main picture, which are outside the local data insertion segments. Because image segments which may be replaced are not used as reference data for image segments which will not be replaced, unintentional prediction errors which might otherwise result from replacing one or more image segments as part of a local data insertion operation are avoided.
US07782937B2
Provided is a system and method for broadcasting stereoscopic video data to users on the Internet based on Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG)-4. The system includes: an encoding server for receiving stereoscopic video data, audio data, and Object Descriptor/Binary Format for Scene (OD/BIFS), which is information for controlling a content, and encoding the data into elementary stream (ES) having an MPEG-4 structure; a web server for receiving from the client any one among two-dimensional video display mode, field-shuttering video display mode and frame-shuttering video display mode; and a streaming server for generating a RTP (RTP) packet for real-time data transmission on the Internet by multiplexing the ES based on the display mode inputted into the web server, and transmitting the RTP packet to the client.
US07782931B2
A communication network is operated by collecting data rate information for at least one Digital Subscriber Line (DSL), comparing the collected data rate information with a provisioned data rate associated with the at least one DSL, resetting the at least one DSL if the collected data rate information for the at least one DSL is less than the provisioned data rate associated with the at least one DSL, performing a statistical analysis on time the at least one DSL operates at about the provisioned data rate versus time the at least one DSL operates below the provisioned data rate, and determining whether the at least one DSL has an impedance problem based on the statistical analysis.
US07782909B2
Provided is a frequency-tunable terahertz light source device. The frequency-tunable terahertz light source device satisfies a Littrow diffraction condition at a wavelength and simultaneously satisfies a Littman-Metcalf diffraction condition at another wavelength using a double diffraction grating having two grating periods. Thus, oscillations simultaneously occur at the two different wavelengths, such that a terahertz wave can be stably generated by beating of the two oscillation wavelengths. In addition, the frequency-tunable terahertz light source device can readily change a frequency up to several terahertz and can be fabricated in a small size.
US07782903B2
Protocol stack layer processing for a MediaFLO™ mobile multimedia multicast system comprising a transmitter comprising a host processor and a host memory component. The processing includes a receiver that receives a wireless data stream comprising a MediaFLO™ mobile multimedia multicast system superframe comprising any of audio, video, and text media frames arranged in multiplexed Multicast Logical Channels (MLCs) and received from the transmitter, wherein each MLC is divided into 16 byte data packets, and wherein each MLC carries up to three logical sub-channels comprising stream 2, stream 1, and stream 0; and an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) memory component operatively connected to the receiver, wherein the ASIC memory component performs processing of the data packets using hardware components comprising, a Medium Access Control (MAC) layer core; a stream layer core; a decryption layer core; a defragmentation layer core; and a sync layer core.
US07782896B2
Provided is a wireless communication apparatus by which the maximum throughput can be obtained while satisfying required reception qualities in multicarrier communication. In the apparatus, a coding section (101) performs error correction coding to all of the plurality of resource blocks at a same coding rate, modulating sections (103-1 to 103-n) generate data symbols by modulating coding data for each of the resource blocks (1 to n), and repetition sections (104-1 to 104-n) repeat the data symbols inputted from the modulation section (103) for each of the resource blocks (1 to n) to generate a plurality of same data symbols. Namely, while the coding rate is same in all of the resource blocks, modulation system and the number of repetitions differ by resource block.
US07782889B2
The invention relates to a novel algebraic method wherein sub-groups of subscribers that spectrally influence each other, in a group of broadband subscriber connections or transmission channels connected to an intelligent network node in a star-shaped manner are classified by observing status variations in operation or in test phases of the individual transmissions, and the spectral influence relation or interference relation is identified with or without using specific test signals during the operation of the network node, without interrupting the data transmissions. The fundamental parameters of the data transmission methods of all of the connected subscribers are optimized from the information obtained in this way, for maximum operator use.
US07782882B2
A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for managing addresses in a network. In one advantageous embodiment, a computer implemented method is used to managing addresses for a plurality of destinations in a network. Addresses assigned to a plurality of gateways are summarized to form summarized addresses containing prefixes and addresses for the plurality of gateways in which each gateway in the plurality of gateways is associated with a portion of the prefixes and addresses for destinations handled by the each gateway in the plurality of gateways. A gateway in the plurality of gateways having a largest portion of the summarized addresses is assigned a prefix for all addresses assigned to the network to form a selected gateway. An associated portion of the summarized addresses for the selected gateway is replaced with the prefix.
US07782877B2
A system and method for providing alternate dedicated connections are described. A primary dedicated connection may be configured to connect a first network and a second network, and a second dedicated network-based connection, which may include a point-to-point protocol (PPP)/layer 2 tunneling protocol (L2TP) tunnel, may be configured to automatically connect the first network and the second network when the primary dedicated connection fails.
US07782875B2
Megaco is a device control protocol defining a general framework for physically decomposed media gateway, where the intelligence of the gateway is in a master node called the media gateway controller, and the actual switching and media transfer is performed in one or more slave nodes called the media gateway(s). In order to enable transfer of group-related information from the media gateway controller to the media gateway, a group termination for the group-related information is created in the media gateway. The group termination is non-member-specific and associated with the group, and the media streams to the group are directed to the group termination.
US07782873B2
A reconfigurable, protocol indifferent bit stream-processing engine, and related systems and data communication methodologies, are adapted to achieve the goal of providing inter-fabric interoperability among high-speed networks operating a speeds of at least 10 gigabits per second. The bit-stream processing engine operates as an omni-protocol, multi-stage processor that can be configured with appropriate switches and related network elements to create a seamless network fabric that permits interoperability not only among existing communication protocols, but also with the ability to accommodate future communication protocols. The method and systems of the present invention are applicable to networks that include storage networks, communication networks and processor networks.
US07782869B1
Processes for the control of traffic and Quality of Service (QoS) over a switch fabric network comprised of application servers and virtual I/O servers. In the embodiment, an application server includes virtual device interfaces, a QoS module, and a network port controlled by a packet scheduler. When the QoS module receives a packet from a virtual device interface, the QoS module stores the packet in a queue. The QoS module removes the packet from the queue and transmits it to the packet scheduler, in accordance with a hierarchical token bucket that allocates bandwidth for the port among the virtual device interfaces in the application server. In the embodiment, the port is the root of the hierarchy for the hierarchical token bucket and the virtual device interfaces are the leaves. The packet scheduler uses round-round arbitration to transmit the packet it receives to the port.
US07782865B2
To provide a method and network system, wherein the proper VPI values are allocated, after the user devices are connected with the network device. A user device transmits a first specific ATM cell, while a network device receives the first specific ATM cell and transmits toward the user device a second specific ATM cell which carries a proper VPI value in the information field of ATM cell. The proper VPI value in the second specific ATM cell is memorized and used by the user device for its own VPI value for communication.
US07782861B2
A compact tool (100) for network radios implementing bi-directional data communication links in computer networks. The tool is formed of a compact chassis or body (101) that can be conveniently stored in a user's pocket. A control processor (502) contained within the chassis is coupled to a data network communications module (506), including an integrated connector (616). The control processor (502) and data network communications module is configured exclusively for communicating with the network radio. Such interface communications are performed using Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and/or telnet protocols. Using these communication protocols, the tool (100) can access radio operating data stored or generated by the network radio. The operating data is displayed using a simple integrated display device (514, 614).
US07782859B2
A method for classifying a data packet containing a header is provided. The method may comprise parsing the header of a data packet into header elements. Rules in secondary lookup tables generated from a primary lookup table may be accessed. The respective header elements of the data packet may be compared to the respective fields of each of the secondary lookup tables, and rule results for each of the secondary lookup tables in a combinable format may be generated. In another embodiment, a method for generating secondary lookup tables from a primary lookup table is provided. The method may comprise accessing a primary lookup table defining packet classification rules and generating multiple secondary lookup tables from the primary lookup table. For each secondary lookup table, a selection of classification rules and a selection of fields of the multiple fields based on a rule set identifying predefined entries may be extracted.
US07782857B2
A packet header processing engine includes a memory having a number of distinct portions for respectively storing different types of descriptor information for a header of a packet. A packet header processing unit includes a number of pointers corresponding to the number of distinct memory portions. The packet header processing unit is configured to retrieve the different types of descriptor information from the number of distinct memory portions and to generate header information from the different types of descriptor information.
US07782848B2
A converged network accessible by wireless client devices includes a wide area wireless network, a local area wireless network, and a gateway linked to the wide area and local area wireless networks for integrating access to the networks by the wireless client devices.
US07782846B2
The present invention relates to a data structure, an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, a transmitting apparatus, a transmitting method, a multiplexing apparatus, a multiplexing method, and a program that ensure a receiving side to decode hierarchically coded audio streams each including a base stream and an extension stream. A TS packetizing section 537 packetizes each of base and extension audio streams into TS packets. A control section 535 controls TS packet transmitting timing. At this time, the control section 535 control the TS packet transmitting timing with timing that an elementary buffer of a virtual receiver is prevented from overflowing and underflowing. The present invention is applicable to a multiplexing apparatus that multiplexes TS packets.
US07782839B2
A communication terminal includes a resource transfer button for transferring URL information of an Internet resource to another party with which IP phone conversation has been established so as to allow the browser of the communication terminal of the other party to browse the Internet resource. The URL information of an Internet resource is registered to a one-touch key. Registering the selection information of the communication terminal of the other party and the URL information of an Internet resource enables the URL information thereof to be transferred to the communication terminal of the other party with which the phone conversation has been established immediately following calling the other party by pressing the one-touch key, so as to allow the browser of the communication terminal of the other party to browse the Internet resource. Thus, both the calling and receiving parties can browse the same Internet resource with the respective terminals.
US07782830B2
A limited acknowledgement-based communication methodology increases the throughput efficiency of extended range, wireless packetized data transmissions to a ‘master’ data-reception site from a ‘slave’ data-sourcing site, geographically remote with respect to the data-reception site. Rather than return an acknowledgement for each received packet, the master returns an acknowledgement only after receipt of a group of packets. When returning an acknowledgement, the master identifies which packets of the group were not successfully received. Missing packets may be retransmitted by the slave transmitter either immediately, or in response to a subsequent poll by the master.
US07782829B2
An energy-efficient framework for active transmission in OFDMA-based long-range wireless networks is disclosed. This frame-work is based on using energy-aware metrics for resource allocation and link adaptation. By casting the optimal energy-efficient resource allocation problem as utility-based optimization problem, low-complexity utility-based resource allocation schemes developed here can be applied to reduce the complexity of resource allocation decisions.
US07782828B2
According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for managing channels in a wireless network includes retrieving device parameters from a wireless network device communicating on a channel in the wireless network. The device parameters include a parameter indicative of a location of the wireless network device and a parameter indicative of the channel of the wireless network device. The channel is associated with a data transmission frequency. The method also includes generating a list of available channels for the wireless network device by determining a channel pattern in the wireless network. The method further includes specifying the channel on which the wireless network device should communicate based on the generated list of available channels to reduce channel interference to the wireless network device.
US07782827B2
A method and apparatus for processing multiple signals at a common frequency combined into a single radio frequency cable and subsequently recovering the signals without significant losses, distortion, or cross-talk. The method and apparatus includes processing multiple signals at a common frequency fed through a single radio frequency (RF) cable with or without one or more amplifiers and utilized for either forward or reverse link transmissions. The invention enables a single power amplifier to amplify multiple RF signals that occupy a common frequency channel and after amplification splitting these signals into amplified copies of the originals. The amplified signals may be sent to different antenna ports to illuminate different base station sectors if required. The signal splitting function is performed at the antenna masthead such that this method reduces the number of feeder cables running up the antenna tower by a factor of N, where N is the number of common frequency signals (e.g., the number of sectors) amplified by the single power amplifier. This invention enables a single power amplifier to simultaneously provide all the radio frequency signals necessary to feed a general N input phased array antenna system and form multiple antenna beams uniquely for several individual users simultaneously.
US07782819B2
To obtain a mobile communication system that can perform handover without causing instantaneous interruption and packet loss and without lowering the performance of the entire network when a mobile communication system is realized by the IP network. During handover of a MN from a handover source cell to a handover destination cell, the MN obtains a CoA of a link, to which a handover destination BTS is connected, and sends it to a handover source BTS. When the handover source BTS receives the CoA from the MN, it measures a data transfer time to the handover destination BTS and transfers an IP packet destined to the MN to the handover destination BTS, and after the transfer time has passed, the handover source BTS sends it to the MN as radio data. The handover destination BTS sends the transferred data to the MN as radio data. The MN sends a message including the CoA to a CN when the handover completed. When the CN receives the message, it routes and directly sends data to the handover destination BTS.
US07782809B2
A communications system (30) enables two communications devices (10, 12) to communicate with each other over an extended distance using a limited range communication protocol, such as the IrDA or Bluetooth protocol. The communications system includes a pair of repeaters (32, 34), each having a protocol stack (38) that includes a portion of the limited range communications protocol. The repeaters communicate with each other over an extended range communications channel (36) such as the PSTN, while each communications device utilizes its native, limited range communications technique to communicate with an associated repeater. Thus, each communications device can readily communicate with another like device using its native protocol over a distance otherwise beyond the range of that technique.
US07782807B2
Methods are provided for transmitting BCMCS in mobile broadband wireless cellular systems under development.
US07782804B2
A system and method of wireless communication. An activator comprises a first radio that transmits an activation message; a first microprocessor; a first memory component; and a first timer. A remote device comprises a second radio that periodically enters into an activation period of operation and a de-activation period of operation in order to conserve power; a second microprocessor; a second memory component; and a second timer. The first radio transmits the activation message repeatedly and continuously for a period at least equal to the sum of the activation period of operation and the de-activation period of operation of the second radio. At least one complete activation message is transmitted by the activator during every period of time allotted for activation of the second radio. The second radio increases a frequency of activation of the second radio upon receipt of a designated activation message from the first radio.
US07782799B2
A Join message load control system in a network using a Protocol Independent Multicast-Source Specific Multicast (PIM-SSM) protocol, the Join message load control system including a source access hop router creating a SOURCE-INACTIVE message and transmitting the created SOURCE-INACTIVE message when a multicast traffic is not received from the multicast server during a set Keep-Alive Time (KAT), and the SOURCE-INACTIVE message including information on an update set time of a PIM Join message; and a group access hop router resetting the update set time of the PIM Join message when the SOURCE-INACTIVE message is received from the source access hop router. Accordingly, it is possible to reduce the periodical transmission of unnecessary Join(S, G) messages and thereby reduce traffic load in a network by adjusting a JP timer of the Join(S, G) message depending on whether a channel(S, G) is active or inactive.
US07782798B2
The present invention discloses a method for identifying node reachability, a method for identifying a link, a method for calculating a routing, and a method for disseminating node address information. In the method of the node address information dissemination, when the network is initiated, each node in the automatically switched optical network performs a node address aggregation process and an aggregation address dissemination process, and obtains and stores the aggregation address respectively. Therefore, any node in the network may judge whether the node and another node in the network are reachable to each other, and may further calculate the routing between the source and destination nodes pair. Moreover, the present invention also may determine whether any traffic engineering link in the multi-level ASON network is an external link or an internal link.
US07782795B2
A management router is assigned for each of a division multicast domains obtained from dividing a multicast domain into predetermined divisions, and each of the management routers shares information concerning a location of a multi-cast information source belonging to the division multicast domain for which each of the management routers is assigned.
US07782785B2
A method and apparatus for optimizing a cross layer in an ad-hoc wireless network are provided. A link price is set using the number of packets of a queue. A flow rate is set using the link price. A channel access rank is set by comparing the link price with a link price of a neighboring node. A channel access backoff time is set based on the channel access rank. The method and apparatus for optimization may not be subject to interference and can simultaneously obtain fairness and efficiency while adaptively setting link capacities.
US07782782B1
A network device includes multiple packet processing engines implemented in parallel with one another. A spraying component distributes incoming packets to the packet processing engines using a spraying technique that load balances the packet processing engines. In particular, the spraying component distributes the incoming packets based on queue lengths associated with the packet processing engines and based on a random component. In one implementation, the random component is a random selection from all the candidate processing engines. In another implementation, the random component is a weighted random selection in which the weights are inversely proportional to the queue lengths.
US07782779B2
An apparatus and method for transmitting a multimedia data stream are provided. The apparatus includes a data source unit to output the data stream; a frame dividing unit to divide the data stream according to a type of a video frame included in the data stream and to output the divided data stream; a parameter control unit to select a parameter set for separate transmission control of the divided data stream using parameters for controlling a transmission layer; and a network interface unit to control transmission of the divided data stream using the parameter set. The method includes dividing the data stream according to a type of a video frame; selecting a parameter set for separate transmission control of the divided data stream; and controlling transmission of the divided data stream using the selected parameter set.
US07782773B2
A method is performed to optimize metrics associated with links of a network that is routed utilizing a shortest-path-first (SPF) routing method. The method includes identifying at least one failure scenario applicable to the network and identifying at least one bandwidth level scenario applicable to point-to-point demands routed through the network. A metric is automatically calculated for each of a plurality of links of a network, such that routings of demands through the network are optimized for the at least one failure scenario, and for the at least one bandwidth level.
US07782756B2
An apparatus (A) is dedicated to generating sequences of signal coding elements within a signal transmission device (TD) of a CDMA network. This apparatus (A) comprises calculation means (CM) tasked with i) constructing a 2×2 intermediary matrix (MK) with rank K, where K is a selected odd-numbered integer value greater than or equal to 1, and comprising four matrix elements (XK, YK, ZK, UK) each constructed from another 2×2 intermediary matrix with rank K−1, where X K = ( X K - 1 X K - 1 X K - 1 - X K - 1 ) , Y K = ( Y K - 1 - Y K - 1 - Y K - 1 - Y K - 1 ) , Z K = ( Z K - 1 - Z K - 1 - Z K - 1 - Z K - 1 ) , U K = ( U K - 1 U K - 1 U K - 1 - U K - 1 ) , X1=1, Y1=−1, Z1=1, and U1=1, then ii) converting the 2×2 intermediary matrix (MK) with rank K into an N×N final matrix (M′K) with rank K, where N=2K, in which each element associated with one of the N rows and N columns is a value, and iii) delivering N sequences which are orthogonal to one another, each comprising N coding elements respectively constructed from the values of the elements contained within one of the N rows of the final matrix (M′K). Each sequence may then be used to spread the signal spectra, said signals being associated with different communication channels, before being modulated and then transmitted.
US07782755B2
A method, system, and communication network for grouping a pair of independent information signals on the same time-frequency orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) resources for uplink (UL) collaborative SDMA, in a wireless communication system. An uplink scheduling (ULS) utility employs an estimated channel gain associated with the transmission path(s) of each user to create a pairing metric that effectively computes the correlation between each pair of independent information signals on a specific sub-carrier frequency channel. Pairs of information signals are considered as possible groupings when the values of the corresponding pairing metrics are less than a threshold maximum value. An optimal selection of final pairings is based on the relative values of the pairing metric(s) and other priority conditions which may include quality of service requirements. The ULS utility enables the UL scheduler to pair information signals with a clear spatial distinction and minimal correlation.
US07782754B2
Techniques are provided for efficiently optimizing scheduling and beamforming in an OFDMA-based wireless network that uses SDMA. The techniques are capable of achieving a high level of spectral efficiency and throughput in a low complexity manner while still addressing quality of service (QoS) constraints.
US07782750B2
A radio communication method for exchanging information between a base station and a terminal station. The method includes: communicating the information between the base station and the terminal station by multi-carrier signals by OFDM modulation scheme including plural subcarriers within a bandwidth, communicating control signals in addition to the information between the base station and the terminal station, and wherein part of the control signals addressed to the terminal station from the base station is transmitted by one or more specific subcarriers in the bandwidth for the multi-carrier signals.
US07782749B2
A method for mapping a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) to resources and an apparatus for transmitting/receiving the mapped PDCCH in a wireless communication system are provided, in which if at least one PDCCH is scheduled to be transmitted in a subframe according to a predetermined scheduling scheme, the PDCCHs are concatenated, interleaved, and mapped to at least one Resource Element (RE).
US07782743B2
An optical disk includes a groove and a land. Data is recorded on either the land or the groove. A pitch of the groove and a pitch of the land are 0.32 μm or more. The optical disk has a data efficiency of 80% or more by adopting a format in which other types of user data are added to every plural user data sets. The data efficiency is defined by a ratio of a user data capacity that can be used by a user to a total data capacity of the optical disk.
US07782734B2
An optical pickup which is compatible with different types of media is disclosed. A plurality of light sources emit light with different wavelengths. Light path changers change the path of light emitted by the plurality of light sources so that the light is incident upon an objective lens. The objective lens focuses the incident light onto a recording medium. A collimating lens is disposed in front of the objective lens to collimate the incident lights. The collimating lens is movable to correct a spherical aberration. A diffractive optical element is disposed in a path of a light with a short wavelength and has a diffractive surface to correct a chromatic aberration.
US07782729B2
The object of the present invention is to curtail the time required from the receipt of a demand for certification processing of a rewritable optical disk from an apparatus of the higher order to the receipt of a demand for recording processing. In order to achieve this object, a digital data recording method for recording on a rewritable optical disk includes certification processing including a first step of recording certification data for the certification processing on the optical disk, a second step of recording user data different from the certification data on the optical disk after the first step, and a third step of reproducing the data recorded in the first step or the second step after the second step, and switches the certification processing based on the result reproduced in the third step.
US07782696B2
The semiconductor storage device according to the present invention comprises a switch provided to a bit line between a memory cells and a sense amplifier and capable of continuously varying a degree of conduction; and a switch control circuit for varying the degree of conduction of the switch in accordance with an access request signal. The semiconductor storage device of the present invention enables operation in which the degree of conduction between the sense amplifier and a memory cell is increased, and an ON state is achieved during a time in which the sense amplifier amplifies the holding voltage of the memory cell and feeds the amplified holding voltage to the bit line. The access time can thereby be reduced.
US07782690B2
A semiconductor device includes plural switching transistors configured to perform trimming for characteristic adjustment of the semiconductor device, and a nonvolatile memory connected to the plural switching transistors and configured to store data for determining ON and OFF of the plural switching transistors. When the semiconductor device is in operation, ON and OFF of the switching transistors are determined by the data.
US07782685B2
A semiconductor device includes a pad configured to receive a data strobe signal, and a path selector configured to output the data strobe signal through a corresponding input path during a normal operation, and to output the data strobe signal through a plurality of input paths in response to a path selection signal during a test operation.
US07782676B2
A method of operating a nonvolatile memory device includes floating a drain select line, a source select line, a well, and a common source line of the nonvolatile memory device; precharging a program-inhibited bit line; and performing a program operation by applying a program voltage to a selected word line. The select lines and the well are floated to prevent the influence of a voltage applied to a bit line. Accordingly, degradation of the nonvolatile memory device can be prevented.
US07782675B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array which includes a plurality of memory cell strings each including a plurality of memory cells and a first dummy cell, which have current paths connected in series at one end and the other end thereof, a plurality of first and second select transistors, a source line, and a bit line, wherein the first dummy cell is disposed on the source line side such that one end and the other end of the current path thereof are connected between the first select transistor and the memory cell, and a threshold voltage of the first dummy cell is higher than a neutral threshold voltage.
US07782672B2
A memory array including memory mats is arranged in a U shape when seen in two dimensions, and a logic circuit and an analog circuit are arranged in a region unoccupied by the memory array. This facilitates transmission of power supply voltage and signals between the peripheral circuit including the analog and logic circuits and the pad band including power supply and data pads. The analog circuit is positioned close to the power supply pad, so that voltage drop due to the resistance of power supply interconnection is restricted. It is also possible to separate a charge pumping power supply interconnection and a peripheral circuit power supply interconnection in the vicinity of the power supply pad.
US07782668B2
A programmable non-volatile device uses a floating gate that functions as a FET gate that overlaps a portion of a source/drain region. This allows a programming voltage for the device to be imparted to the floating gate through capacitive coupling, thus changing the state of the device. The invention can be used in environments such as data encryption, reference trimming, manufacturing ID, security ID, and many other applications.
US07782655B2
The present invention provides a solution to avoid the robustness problems of sub-threshold circuits by switching small parts of circuits to nominal-voltage only when they are being used, and switching them back to sub-threshold levels when the operation finishes. Such “hybrid sub-threshold” approach is capable of supporting ultra-low power operation without the disadvantages of sub-threshold circuits.
US07782648B2
Correction data is written in fuse circuits of q bits. A reading circuit sequentially reads information of the fuse circuits through a selector and writes the information in a storage circuit. Therefore, read data is output from the storage circuit in parallel.
US07782646B2
A content addressable memory array storing stored words in memory elements. Each memory element stores one of at least two complementary binary bits as one of at least two complementary resistances. Each memory element is electrically coupled to an access device. An aspect of the content addressable memory array is the use of a biasing circuit to bias the access devices during a search operation. During the search operation, a search word containing a bit string is received. Each access device is biased to a complementary resistance value of a corresponding search bit in the search word. A match between the search word and stored word is indicated if the bits stored in the memory elements are complementary to the bits represented by the resistances in the access devices.
US07782637B2
An electronic power device for controlling a load includes: a high-voltage integrated switch having an output terminal to be connected to the load; an integrated, and low-voltage driving circuit for driving the switch, and a start-up integrated circuit comprising a high-voltage resistor and such that it can be enabled, during a step of turning on the power device, in order to activate the driving circuit. The switch and the start-up circuit are integrated in a first semiconductor chip and the driving circuit is integrated in a different, second semiconductor chip.
US07782634B2
A switched-mode power supply includes a converter to convert input power into output power having a predetermined voltage level by performing a switching operation; a switching controller to control the switching operation of the converter based on an indication of a voltage of the output power; and an output power voltage indicating unit to provide the indication of the voltage of the output power to the switching controller according to a characteristic of the output power voltage indicating unit that varies according to the size of a load receiving the output power converted by the converter.
US07782631B2
A flat panel display. A panel module and a first securing assembly. A shield has a longitudinal first opening at a side thereof, extending along a first direction. A connection member has a recess extending along the first direction and a second opening extending along a second direction. A panel module is disposed in the recess. The first securing assembly is fastened through the first and second openings and movable with respect to the first and second openings to secure the shield and the connection member.
US07782629B2
A pre-drilled hole, providing a passageway between an upper and a lower surface of a printed circuit board layer, receives a passive component, for example a resistor or a capacitor. In one embodiment the component is cylindrical, with an electrically conductive contact point at each end. The hole diameter is approximately the same as the diameter of the cylindrical component. The hole is similar to a via in a printed circuit board, except that the hole is not plated through (such would cause an electrical short). Electrically conductive lines are provided to the openings of the hole on the upper and the lower surfaces of the PCB. The area of the exposed end of the cylindrical component and the termination of the conducting line is less than the area of a surface mounted component equivalent to the cylindrical component. In some embodiments the hole and inserted component are located directly below a pin pad for a surface mounted device, for example an integrated circuit, providing the equivalent of zero wire and line lengths with no net increase in printed circuit board area.
US07782628B2
Provided is a circuit device capable of increasing the packaging density and preventing the thermal interference between circuit elements to be incorporated. In a hybrid integrated circuit device, a first circuit board and a second circuit board are fitted into a case member in a way that the first circuit board is overlaid with the second circuit board. A first circuit element is arranged on the upper surface of the first circuit board and a second circuit element is arranged on the upper surface of the second circuit board. Furthermore, inside the case member, provided is a hollow portion that is not filled with a sealing resin. Such a configuration prevents the second circuit element, which is a microcomputer, from operating unstably due to a heat generated in the first circuit element, which is a power transistor, for example.
US07782627B2
A control device for arrangement in a fluid environment includes a housing, with a housing lid (1) for accommodating sensors and a housing shell (2) for receiving at least one control unit (3). The control device further includes at least one device (4) for electrically connecting the sensors to the control unit (3) as well as at least one sealing element (5) for sealing the housing shell (2) against the fluid environment. The device (4) for electrically connecting the sensors located on the housing lid (1) to the control unit (3) in the housing shell (2) is embodied as a film conductor between the housing lid (1) and the sealing element (5) while the sealing element (5) is embodied as a plane sealing element.
US07782624B2
An electronic apparatus includes a semiconductor chip 15, a first substrate 10A having an antenna 12 formed on a first face 10a thereof and having the semiconductor chip 15 loaded on a second face 10b thereof, a second substrate 20A on which the first substrate 10A is provided so as to face the semiconductor chip 15, and which is connected to the outside, copper core solder balls 18 electrically connecting the first substrate 10A and the second substrate 20A, and a resin material 30 disposed between the first substrate 10A and the second substrate 20A. The second substrate 20A is provided with a thermal via 27 which radiates the heat in the semiconductor chip 15.
US07782621B2
A circuit module includes: a thermally conductive board forming a part of a housing; a circuit board disposed above the thermally conductive board; a semiconductor chip connected to a plurality of electrode pads on a upper surface of the circuit board through solder; a heat sink connected to a upper surface of the semiconductor chip; a thermally conductive member thermally connecting the thermally conductive board to the semiconductor chip; and a plurality of fasteners passing through the thickness of the circuit board in an area surrounding the semiconductor chip to attach the heat sink to the thermally conductive board.
US07782616B1
A heat-dissipating component including a heat-generating device such as a power semiconductor chip and a mounting structure is provided with coolant channels having a stair-stepped internal geometry that enhances cooling performance with both single-phase and two-phase cooling modes without unduly restricting coolant flow or significantly increasing manufacturing cost. The stair-stepped geometry enhances both single-phase and two-phase cooling modes by increasing the surface area of the channels, and further enhances the two-phase cooling mode by providing numerous high-quality bubble nucleation sites along the length of the channels. The stair-stepped channels are formed in the heat generating device and/or the mounting structure, and the stepped sidewalls may extend toward or away from the center of the channel.
US07782613B2
A cellular cooling part includes a number at least one movable part, that can be the removable flap or movable cover for a fan. The fan, for example, can be moved or opened to expose it. A flap can also be opened. In addition, different covering structures can be used.
US07782610B2
A case for an electronic device protects and extends the battery life of the electronic device. The case has a lower case portion and an upper case portion, which assemble together to protect the top, side, and bottom edges of the electronic device. The lower case portion includes a battery to extend the battery life of the electronic device.
US07782593B2
A carrier wafer includes a flat substrate with a top side and a bottom side. A first layer sequence, at least on the top side of the substrate, is arranged with area parallel to the substrate. The first layer sequence has an isolating layer. A flat, conductive electrode is arranged on the first layer sequence with area parallel to the substrate. Everywhere that it is not in contact with the first layer sequence, the electrode is surrounded by a second layer sequence having a layer made of an isolating material. In a region, which forms a tunnel window and on which the electrode is arranged, the first layer sequence is thinner than on the rest of its area. An electrical voltage can be applied to the substrate in such a way that the electrical field lines caused by the applied voltage pass through the tunnel window. The electrode can be charged, by means of a potential difference between the electrode and the substrate caused by the applied voltage, in that electrons tunnel through the tunnel window.
